Nature Quotes - Page 85

...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she is to reconstruct what she has been, and to prophesy what she yet shall be. Veil after veil we have lifted, and her face grows more beautiful, august, and wonderful, with every barrier that is withdrawn.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

Give yourself the gift of nature as often as you can.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

a culture is no better than its woods

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

What is not in nature can never be true.

Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.

How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .

When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.

Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It is a signed copy. Under the signature, in my own handwriting, are the words, "To mum and dad".

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.