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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.
Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.
Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Give your kids responsibility. Once outside, let them lead, who cares if you get lost; it might be the best trip you've ever had.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.
Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.
Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.
If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.
Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.
We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.
Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.
A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.
Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.
Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.
We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.