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| "This is The Foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do." Francis Bacon Quotes |
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| You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. Hal Borland Quotes |
| Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. John Burroughs Quotes |
| In the fields and woods more than anything else all things come to those who wait, because all things are on the move, and are sure sooner or later to come your way. To absorb a thing is better than to learn it, and we absorb what we enjoy. We learn things at school; we absorb them in the fields and woods. When we look upon Nature with fondness and appreciation, she meets us halfway and takes a deeper hold on us than when studiously conned. Hence I say the way of knowledge of Nature is the way of love and enjoyment, and is more surely found in the open air than in the school room or the laboratory. John Burroughs Quotes |
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more. Lord (George Gordon) Byron Quotes |
| Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to his senses. There is a pertinent saying in one of the Upanishads: When before the beauty of a sunset or of a mountain you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity. Such a moment of participation involves a realization of the wonder and sheer beauty of existence. People living in the world of nature experience such moments every day. They live in the recognition of something there that is much greater than the human dimension. Joseph Campbell Quotes |
An old Apache storyteller reminds us:
“The plants, rocks, fire, water, all are alive. They watch us and see our needs. They see when we have nothing to protect us, and it is then that they reveal themselves and speak to us." Author Unknown Quotes |
| Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. Leonardo DaVinci Quotes |
| If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence. Meister Eckhart Quotes |
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| A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. George Eliot Quotes |
| I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces. Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty. I am over instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please. I cannot go back to toys. I am grown expensive and sophisticated. I can no longer live without elegance: but a countryman shall be my master of revels. He who knows the most, he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man. Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| "For example, there is a species of butterfly, a night-moth, in which the females are much less common than the males. The moths breed exactly like all animals, the male fertilizes the female and the female lays the eggs. Now, if you take a female night moth----many naturalists have tried this experiment---the male moths will visit this female at night and they will come from hours away. From hours away! Just think! From a distance of several miles all these males sense the only female in the region. One looks for an explanation for this phenomenon but it is not easy. You must assume that they have a sense of smell of some sort like a hunting dog that can pick up and follow a semmingly imperceptible scent. Do you see? Nature abounds with such inexplicable things. But my argument is: if the female moths were as abundant as the males, the latter would not have such a highly developed sense of smell. They've acquired it only because they had to train themseleves to to have it. If a person were to concentrate all his will power on a certain end, then he would achieve it. That's all. And that also answers your question. Examine a person closely enough and you know more about him than he does himself." Hermann Hesse Quotes |
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| The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy. George Mallory Quotes |
| There is a great solitude about such a shore. The woods are never solitary- they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery- we may only wander, awed and spell-bound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only- a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels. Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes |
| Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man. John Morley Quotes |
| The beauty and completeness of a wild apple tree living its own life in the woods is heartily acknowledged by all those who have been so happy as to form its acquaintance. The fine wild piquancy of its fruit is unrivaled, but in the great question of quantity as human food wild apples are found wanting. Man, therefore, takes the tree from the woods, manures and prunes and grafts,plans and guesses, adds a little of this and that, selects and rejects, until apples of every conceivable size and softness are produced, like nut galls in response to the irritating punctures of insects. Orchard apples are to me the most eloquent words that culture had ever spoken, but they reflect no imperfection upon Nature's spicy crab. John Muir Quotes |
| Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately complex interweaving of its parts, a means to an end. Surely you wouldn't think this marvel would have come about by itself. The watch must have a maker. Just as the watch has such complex means to an end, so does nature to a much greater extent. Just look at the complexity of the human eye. Thus we must conclude that nature has a maker too! William Paley Quotes |
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| "Nature is not served by rigid laws, but by rhythmical, reciprocal processes. Nature uses none of the preconditions of the chemist or the physicist for the purposes of evolution. Nature excludes all fire, on principle, for purposes of growth; therefore all contemporary machines are unnatural and constructed according to false premises. Nature avails herself of the biodynamic form of motion through which the biological prerequisite for the emergence of life is provided. Its purpose is to ur-procreate 'higher' conditions of matter out of the originally inferior raw materials, which afford the evolutionally older, or the numerically greater rising generation, the possibility of a constant capacity to evolve, for without any growing and increasing reserves of energy there would be no evolution or development. This results first and foremost in the collapse of the so-called Law of the Conservation of Energy, and in further consequence the Law of Gravity, and all other dogmatic lose any rational or practical basis." Viktor Schauberger Quotes |
| The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the forest skirting and occasionally jutting into the midst of new towns, which, like the sand-heaps of fresh fox-burrows, have sprung up in their midst. The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| “Consequently: he who wants to have right without wrong, order without disorder, does not understand the principles of heaven and earth. He does not know how things hang together.” Chuang Tzu Quotes |
| I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. William Westmoreland Quotes |
| Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. Alfred North Whitehead Quotes |
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But beauty seen is never lost,
God’s colors all are fast;
The glory of this sunset heaven
Into my soul has passed….. John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes |
| A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams Quotes |
| Written in Early Spring William Wordsworth Quotes |
| The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Zeno Quotes |
| One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race. Wendell Berry Quotes |
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| I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Walt Whitman Quotes |
| Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. Toni Morrison Quotes |
| The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Rachel Carson Quotes |
| It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. Rachel Carson Quotes |
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| Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson Quotes |
| On every stem, on every leaf ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
| I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
| 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. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
| Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
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| Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. Rachel Carson Quotes |
| Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole. Murray Gell-Mann Quotes |
| To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. Mohandas K. Gandhi Quotes |
| There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. Linda Hogan Quotes |
| A flower is an educated weed. Luther Burbank Quotes |
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| If people think that nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy. Kurt Vonnegut Quotes |
| Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir Quotes |
| There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. John Steinbeck Quotes |
| Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes |
| The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day. Kenneth Patton Quotes |
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| A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. James Russell Lowell Quotes |
| The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. Claude Monet Quotes |
| When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being. Ernest Becker Quotes |
| We cannot command nature except by obeying her. Francis Bacon Quotes |
| Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
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| The sun, with all those plants revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo Quotes |
| ... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. George Santayana Quotes |
| To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. Helen Keller Quotes |
| Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
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| I was determined to know beans. Walden Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. Blaise Pascal Quotes |
| Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. Buckminster Fuller Quotes |
| The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. Blaise Pascal Quotes |
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| Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. [Uncle Vanya, 1897] Anton Chekhov Quotes |
| The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. Anne Frank Quotes |
| Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. Antoinette Brown Blackwell Quotes |
| I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., Quotes |
| What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes |
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| Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. Standing Bear Quotes |
| How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! John Muir Quotes |
| Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. George Washington Carver Quotes |
| Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. John Muir Quotes |
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| God writes the gospel not in The Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. Martin Luther Quotes |
| I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. Osho Quotes |
| Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. Alice Walker Quotes |
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| I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. Wendell Berry Quotes |
| And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know? Carl Sandburg Quotes |
| I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. e.e. cummings Quotes |
| The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats Quotes |
| I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It 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. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. Hamlin Garland Quotes |
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| In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. Charles A. Lindbergh Quotes |
| After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes |
| The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. Juvenal Quotes |
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
George Gordon, Lord Byron, Quotes |
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| You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. Hal Borland Quotes |
| The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. Galileo Quotes |
| Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. John Muir Quotes |
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home -
With a bobolink for a Chorister,
And an Orchard, for a Dome.
Emily Dickinson Quotes |
| To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. Jane Austen Quotes |
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| The sun is the epitome of benevolence - it is lifegiving and warmthgiving and happinessgiving, and to it we owe our thanksgiving. Jessi Lane Adams Quotes |
| Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons. James Russell Lowell Quotes |
| Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu Quotes |
| The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. Stephen Graham Quotes |
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| Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. William Blake Quotes |
| Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
Joy all creatures drink
At nature's bosoms...
Friedrich von Schiller, "Ode to Joy, Quotes |
| They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy. Star Richés Quotes |
| Innovative capitalists have tried to rewrite nature, but to no avail. Astrid Alauda Quotes |
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| What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes |
| One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare Quotes |
| I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted, 14 August 19 Quotes |
| I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. William Hazlitt Quotes |
To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
John Keats Quotes |
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| Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. John Heywood, 1565 Quotes |
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You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things... Walt Whitman Quotes |
| In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. Aldo Leopold Quotes |
| Nature hates calculators. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,
and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Quotes |
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| Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. Alan Hovhaness Quotes |
| Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. Thornton Wilder Quotes |
| And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. William Shakespeare Quotes |
The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
The brooks for the fishers of song;
To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
The streams and the woods belong.
Sam Walter Foss Quotes |
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| My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms - will it return to my body when they scatter? Kotomichi Quotes |
The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I:
Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
Isaac Watts Quotes |
| Human nature is just about the only nature some people experience. Abigail Charleson Quotes |
| Nature is my medicine. Sara Moss-Wolfe Quotes |
| Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Rachel Carson Quotes |
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| Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
| I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that.... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. Abraham Cowley Quotes |
How many stanzas in the springtime breeze?
How plenty the raindrops? As He doth please.
There is no meter and there is no rhyme,
Yet God's poems always read in perfect time.
Astrid Alauda Quotes |
| You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them. Russell Chatham Quotes |
| Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it there. Robb Sagendorph Quotes |
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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet,
Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes |
| Sunshine has no budget, the sea no red tape. Jareb Teague Quotes |
| That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. John Berger Quotes |
| Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. Alfred Billings Street Quotes |
| There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. Alice Meynell Quotes |
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Watching clouds roll by
on a sunny day
Who needs church?
Nature is divine.
Carrie Latet Quotes |
| Art gallery? Who needs it? Look up at the swirling silver-lined clouds in the magnificent blue sky or at the silently blazing stars at midnight. How could indoor art be any more masterfully created than God's museum of nature? Grey Livingston Quotes |
| Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. Alan C. Kay Quotes |
| Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. Michel de Montaigne Quotes |
| A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. Michael Pollan Quotes |
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| I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn. W.H. Hudson Quotes |
| I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time. Emily Dickinson Quotes |
| I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs Quotes |
Any man that walks the mead
In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find
A meaning suited to his mind.
Alfred Tennyson Quotes |
| What a type of happy family is the family of the sun! with what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another! Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Quotes |
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| Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. George Washington Carver Quotes |
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
Rupert Brooke Quotes |
| How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. e.e. cummings Quotes |
| I walked barefoot - the only way to walk on a muddy road. Laurie Gough, "Light on a Moonless N Quotes |
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| A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable unimplicated sun. Llewelyn Powys Quotes |
| If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. Eleonora Duse Quotes |
| Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries. John Muir Quotes |
In the sky
an infinitude of hope,
a canvas of glory
all possibilities mine.
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| Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. Francis Bacon Quotes |
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| Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. Napoleon Hill Quotes |
| In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. John Fowles Quotes |
| I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man. George Wherry Quotes |
| Some people say a man's best friend is the dog. Mine is Nature. Ward Elliot Hour Quotes |
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| Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau, journal, 5 January Quotes |
| The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. William Channing Quotes |
| Drinking nature is an unquenchable thirst. Berri Clove Quotes |
| Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back. Gwyn Thomas Quotes |
| If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. Aristotle Quotes |
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| A wee child toddling in a wonder world.... I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan. Zitkala-Sa Quotes |
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
William Wordsworth Quotes |
| The moon is like a mystery novel, the sun like a motivational self-help book, and the stars a coffee table book of photography. The sky is the whole library, and God the librarian. Pepper Giardino Quotes |
| You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. St. Bernard Quotes |
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare Quotes |
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| Nature is the art of God. Thomas Browne Quotes |
| The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. Dogen Quotes |
Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes |
| Nature never goes out of style. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Nature is a writer's best friend. Agavé Powers Quotes |
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| There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. Steven Weinberg Quotes |
| 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. John Burroughs Quotes |
| The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health. Author Unknown Quotes |
| In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle Quotes |
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| Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle Quotes |
| I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B. White Quotes |
| Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal. Author Unknown Quotes |
| I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
| Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. H. G. Wells Quotes |
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| Nature is wont to hide herself. Heraclitus Quotes |
| One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. Jane Austen Quotes |
| It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. Scott Westerfeld Quotes |
| A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. Tennessee Williams Quotes |
| After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman Quotes |
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| You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. Walt Whitman Quotes |
| Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. Buckminster Fuller Quotes |
| How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! Emily Dickinson Quotes |
| Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
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| It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes |
| Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots. Henry Thoreau Quotes |
| I don't work according to nature, but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature, but never confuse it with the art. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. Andy Warhol Quotes |
| If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. Siddhartha Buddha Quotes |
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| Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. Baltasar Gracian Quotes |
| Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience. Paul Boese Quotes |
