Quotes About Nature

The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.

The hiding of one's essential inner nature is, as we will see, considered to be the ultimate basis of disease and problems in life.

I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one's body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God…in these temples of God's own building.

We, who live in the cities, see but a little farther than across the street. We spend our days looking at the work of our own and our neighbors' hands. Small wonder our lives have so little of God in them, when we come in touch with so little that God has made.

while they read and talked together, there was opened before them the great book wherein God has written, in the language of mountain, and tree, and sky, and flower, and brook, the things that make truly wise those who pause to read.

We spend our days looking at the work of our own and our neighbors' hands. Small wonder our lives have so little of God in them, when we come in touch with so little that God has made.

He saw the great hills heaving their dark forms into the sky, and in his soul he felt the spirit of the wilderness and the mystery of the hour.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

With flowers the sex is up-front and x-rated.

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.

We Were Created as Emotional Beings

What I saw was just one eye In the dawn as I was going: A bird can carry all the sky In that little button glowing. Never in my life I went So deep into the firmament.

If we want our worship, or attempts at worship, to mean anything, we have to strive to conform it to the nature and will of God, and not to the mood or taste of the century.

But death permits you To arrange your hours While he sucks the honey From your lovely flowers

Laws of nature do not make exceptions for nice people. A bullet has no conscience; neither does a malignant tumor or an automobile gone out of control. That is why good people get sick and get hurt as much as anyone.

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Lewis Petrinovich, The Cannibal Within (New York: Aldine de Gruyter

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The love of cruelty is a component of human psychology as old as the species itself.

The study, therefore, of the representation of visible nature and of the powers of expression possessed by form and colour is the object of the painter's training.

26There go the ships, and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.

The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

Human nature is above all things lazy.