Quotes About Nature

Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

Should we say something?' Cal asks. 'Goodbye, bird?' I suggest. He nods. 'Goodbye, bird. Thank you for coming. And good luck.

I'm looking over a four-leaf clover that I overlooked before.

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

To live by medicine is to live horribly.