Nature Quotes - Page 46

Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesn'tbut that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world's water and weather, the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.

God and Nature met in light.

SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.