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People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.
It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.
Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.
Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.
Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.
The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death.
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.
The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it
I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.
Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.
Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world.
Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.
It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.
What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.
As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?
Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.
The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.
In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.
Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.
The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.
The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.