Nature Quotes - Page 73

Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.

The summer breeze was blowing on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

Our lives teach us who we are.

Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

For man is by nature an artist.

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.