Nature Quotes - Page 30

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered his real nature, how can there be anywhere or anything separate from it?... ...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind

Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people.

I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea and the desert are both hungry, they have things to be getting on with so you do not go into them lightly.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.