Nature Quotes - Page 23

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it

My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a mere two years you’re at a profit.” “How I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head.” “I can forge signatures as well.” “Splendid. Exactly the bride I’ve been hoping for.

From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance