Nature Quotes
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The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.
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When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.
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Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me – the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love – He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us – nature did it all – not the gods of the religions.
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There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.
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To produce good sculpture it is not necessary to copy the works of antiquity; it is necessary first of all to regard the works of nature, and to see in those of the classics only the method by which they have interpreted nature.
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If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.
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Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.
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The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.
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Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you; for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them. And if any is unhappy, remember that he is so for himself; for God made all men to enjoy felicity and peace.
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Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.
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Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
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You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
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A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.
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Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature.
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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
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If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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Boswell is pleasant and gay, For frolic by nature designed; He heedlessly rattles away When company is to his mind.
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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
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The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.
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Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want to feel your life while you're living it?" You know, there's somewhere to go that was here before we were and is going to be here after us, so get out there in it. It doesn't take somebody who's got some self-important sense of their own attachment to nature to recognise that you're just stupid if you don't go out there.
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My grandmother taught me the seasonality of food. She lived with the rhythms of nature. That's the way we should live. Why do we need raspberries in January flown from Chile?
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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.
