Quotes About Nature

There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

L'homme a un penchant naturel à imaginer des théories correctes de toutes espèces... Si l'homme n'était pas doué d'un esprit adapté à ses besoins, il n'aurait jamais pu acquérir aucune connaissance

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

Nature speaks in equations.

Thoreau loved ants. He'd meet one in the morning and spend the whole day talking to him.

I could never free myself from the thought that Nature is that which is slowly killing me.

And all of a sudden In the midst of that quiet, It seems possible To live simply on this earth.

Scribbled in the Dark  A shout in the street. Someone locking horns with his demon. Then, calm returning. The wind tousling the leaves. The birds in their nests Pleased to be rocked back to sleep. Night turning cool. Streams of blood in the gutter Waiting for sunrise.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very confused frogs

The notion developed that the breach of reason with nature was a necessary one; that man had to make it in order to develop his powers of reason and abstraction. Schiller makes this point in his Letters on the Aestethic education of Man, as does Hölderin in his Hyperion Fragment. The belief was that the human destiny was to return to nature at a higher level, having made a synthesis of reason and desire.

Leibniz combines Aristotelian teleology in the notion that the nature of a thing provides for its unfolding in a certain fashion with the modern idea that the nature of a thing is within it. Because the forms are internal in the way that they are not with Aristotle, the harmony of the world has to be pre-established by God.

The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest...

True happiness … is found in fulfilling our higher nature, shaping our lives and our circumstances to reflect the way we are hardwired.

We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal; that atheism is against, not only our reason, but our instincts; and that it cannot

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

When I loved you and you loved me, You were the sky, the sea, the tree; Now the skies are skies, and seas are seas, And trees are brown and they are trees.

She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.

That is to say, our physical ability to understand time has been honed by evolutionary pressures to select for traits useful for survival, in all aspects, and time perception is no exception or special case or even magical or mysterious case.

She sat on a worn wooden bench, and read her book, and nibbled on her sandwich. The air was warm syrup, was literally thick with pollen and dandelion clocks and photons moving at the speed of light. An hour passed, then two. I never arrived at the park, wearing the only suit I never had, the one with a hole in the side pocket that no one ever saw.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature – or go insane.