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Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humors lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.
I don’t know if it is all (man’s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature.
Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.
Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.
Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.
If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.
The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.
Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.
That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.
There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.
Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.
One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.
If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.
The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!
For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.