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Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.
I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals.
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.
The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about.
The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.
We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it!
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.
They who wander widest lift No more of beauties' jealous veils, Than they who from their doorways see The miracle of flowers and trees.
We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.
we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.
The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom.
Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.
Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.
The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.
Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.
I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.
The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.
You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow!
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.
O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.
Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post.