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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.
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.
Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are... Kids are tough.
Every creature and plant is part of her (mother nature's) amazing interconnected garden... The whole world is a garden.
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
"Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged."
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.
Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.
Nature's beauty we all admire in every shape and form, but how much more we admire her when the weather's nice and warm.
In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.
What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.
As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.
I'm not sure exactly why I chase storms. Perhaps it's to witness the incredible beauty of what Mother Nature can create.
The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.
I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.