Nature Quotes - Page 77

The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.

Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.

[T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.

Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.