Nature Quotes - Page 79

For greed, all nature is too little.

she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of changes, this number doesn't change. That is, if you calculate again, this quantity, it'll be the same as it was before. An example is the conservation of energy: there's a quantity that you can calculate according to a certain rule, and it comes out the same answer after, no matter what happens, happens.

Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton.

The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.

Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.