Nature Quotes - Page 76

I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.

No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing towards us, as well as our best possible attitude towards it. Therein lies the ordinary function of ready-made concepts, those stations with which we mark out the path of becoming. But to seek to penetrate with them into the inmost nature of things, is to apply to the mobility of the real a method created in order to give stationary points of observation on it.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do our part to conserve its natural resources. It is a responsibility which every human being shares. Through voluntary action, each of us can join in building a productive land in harmony with nature.

One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length and width,-all solids of nature which have three dimensions,-length, width, and depth,-provided, however, that these solids are capable of rigorous definition. The second object is to furnish means to recognize accordingly an exact description of the forms of solids and to derive thereby all truths which result from their forms and their respective positions.

The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.