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If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.
Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.
Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.
The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.
I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.
Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.
The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.
In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.
I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.
We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.