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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.
There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.
Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.
Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?
Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.
Everybody needs time to reflect and contemplate, and the most inspirational and peaceful place to do so is in nature.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.
[A persons] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.
A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.