Quotes About Nature

The physician is only nature's assistant.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

Young leaves The sound of a waterfall Heard from far and near.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.