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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.
Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.
By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.
If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?
Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.
If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.
By letting our children lead us to their own special places we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.
The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!
In Nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion and change.
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
The real beauty created by man never competes with the beauty of nature; but it only perfectly completes it!
Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.
Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.