Nature Quotes - Page 62

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!

At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today?

An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce some dangers to children; but other risks are heightened, including risks to physical and psychological health, risk to children's concept and perception of community, risk to self-confidence and the ability to discern true danger

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.

April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets.

The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth.

I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.

"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether it itself be a subsidiary whole or an "element"-is a very real process usually involving alterations in that "part". Modifications of a part frequently involve changes elsewhere in the whole itself. Nor is the nature of these alterations arbitrary, for they too are determined by whole-conditions.

When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.

Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.

Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.

Nature abhors annihilation.