Quotes about nature

To find the universal elements enough to find the air and the water exhilarating to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

Fear of nature led to society hatred among men lead to culture envy among women led to virtue.

Albeit i may die sleep not in the coffen of gold and even beer no fruit but my impact after depart is my particular to paradise.

Nature is not mute it is man who is deaf.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion give them nature.

The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.

Embrace the gift of autumn where every flower radiates its splendor.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It has long since ceased to be a theory it is a law of Nature as universal in living things as is the law of gravitation in material things and in the motions of the heavenly spheres.

We must not wait for favours from Nature our task is to wrest them from her.

To save and maintain the beauty of nature there will be a few people worth to be left alive.

The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly light would elucidate the most difficult truths wind would sweep away obtuse padding.

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient more beautiful than it is useful it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

I had come to the canyon with expectations. I wanted to see snowy egrets flying against the black schist at dusk I saw blue-winged teal against the green waters at dawn. I had wanted to hear thunder rolling in the thousand-foot depths I heard the guttural caw of four ravens…what any of us had come to see or do fell away. We found ourselves at each turn with what we had not imagined.

Sweet is the lore which nature bringsOur meddling intellectMisshapes the beauteous forms of things—We murder to dissect.

Nature is not kind it is not good. Do you really think nature cares about any individual living thing?

Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

I like the rain it brings your fragrance everywhere and the nature smells your aroma.

Nature hides a man many things but the man hides the nature itself. Nature decides when to show a man what man decides what to show the society how.

See the bigger picture of yours and refuse the passport size creature that people think you are! Your nature is large go for it. Feel free to wake up and print your bigger picture!

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.

Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a long, long time. Now do you really want to get in there and do geo-engineering and all this kind of stuff?

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.

But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.

It is an undoubted truth that the neck and throat of a highbred woman are incomparably more beautiful than in the woman of lower origin. Blood will tell there is no disputing it.

Let your mind be harmonious with nature let it bloom with all of her beauty to find inner peace.

There is no relationship between bliss and peace. Peace is dependent on the pudgal (Complex of intake and output body complex) while bliss is the nature of the Self (the Soul).

I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.

Let us give Nature a chance she knows her business better than we do.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature it agitated me to pain sometimes.

From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

Humans are naturally elusioned in discrimination it starts when we look for the first time in mirror

Nothing is inanimate what is the rest is our interpretation.

Nature tells the truth as it is it has no euphemism

Nothing in nature is that even man is the inventor of straight edges.

I've always longed to have a patch of personal wilderness. Of waist-high grass entwined with wildflowers through which I can prance within which I can lie down and disappear from sight.

Heaven is all around us. All we need is perception to extol the melodies of Nature's orchestra.

In the tide pool I was riveted by fat pink sea stars sitting like satisfied gangsters and seemingly unconcerned by their exposure gulls would peck at them but the sea stars simply grew replacement limbs.

Dawn and dusk are mutual friends of the sun one opens the door for him to a brand new day and the other one has to shut it to embrace the darkness of night.

Each malevolence has a cousin that heals it. I fancy Hurtsickle and Heartsease as herbal enemies –weeds growing in reach of one another the bite and the balm in balance.

A camel brayed columns from the rondavels new sunlight struck the savage earth.

How light the raindrop's contents arehow gently the world touches me.From View With a Grain of Sand

If you listen closely you will hear the spirits sigha lesson lost on humans an enchanting lullaby:Mercy lies in nature’s hands and bound to it we grow.Of the earth we came to be and of the earth we’ll go.

Nature is to be observed not directed.

We can always be humanMeeting each day a wise new manBut the Animal Kingdom to which we belongAnimals we are this truth can’t be wrong.

Some people walk with oceans in their hearts some just with jars of water. Drink from both.

Nature is such as to give rise to conscious beings with minds and it is such as to be comprehensible to such beings. Ultimately therefore such beings should be comprehensible to themselves.

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me I see Him all around me.

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.

A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States.

The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.

Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Nature is not out there it is in your being. You came from nature.

Death is not in the nature of things it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.

Environment is no one's property to destroy it's everyone's responsibility to protect.

Everything happens some get hurt maybe a fairy tale of damage but nature can't be change. We just walk away with memories that carries a story being made after as history.

All the beauty of the spring went for happy men to think of all the increase of the year was for other eyes to mark. Not a sign of any sunrise for me from my fount of life not a breath to stir the dead leaves fallen on my heart’s Spring.

This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: 'Think about all the suffering in the world and be thankful you're not part of it.' My advice is: 'Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. It didn't seem to be in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really.

My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal and its palpability taketh its original in the anger the eternal nature is its root.

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow.

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.