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There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!
Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring.
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
One's appreciation of nature is never more acute than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.
From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going
Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
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.
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.
The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?
The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.
What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat
It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.
The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it
Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.