Quotes About Nature

Sometimes," said Thoreau, "as I drift idly on Walden Pond, I cease to live and begin to be.

La naturaleza ama la diferencia como material necesario para la selección y la evolución;

States are built not on the ideals but on the nature of men.

Empedocles (fl. 445 B.C., in Sicily) developed to a further stage the idea of evolution.17 Organs arise not by design but by selection. Nature makes many trials and experiments with organisms, combining organs variously; where the combination meets environmental needs the organism survives and perpetuates its like; where the combination fails, the organism is weeded out; as time goes on, organisms are more and more intricately and successfully adapted to their surroundings.

I considered that my nature and disposition had, as it were, a kind of kinship and connection with truth.

within, by its nature and structure and entelechy;

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically

says a fine Greek adage, is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.)

Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavors to persist in its own being; and the endeavor wherewith a thing seeks to persist in its own being is nothing else than the actual essence of that thing";

Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavors to persist in its own being; and the endeavor wherewith a thing seeks to persist in its own being is nothing else than the actual essence of that thing";65 the power whereby a thing persists is the core and essence of its being.

That whereby man differs from the lower animals is but small. Most people throw it away; only

IV. IS MAN A MACHINE? Yes, said Julien Offroy de La Mettrie.

todos nacemos sin libertad y desiguales: sujetos a nuestra herencia física y psicológica y a las costumbres y tradiciones de nuestro grupo; conformados de forma distinta en cuanto a salud y fuerza, capacidad mental y cualidades de carácter.

pugnacity, greed, brutality, and sexual readiness were advantages in the struggle for existence. Probably every vice was once a virtue

When sakura fall from the branch, the shock waves can shatter entire cities.

There is nothing he enjoys so much as a good walk, which he calls "the most social of exercises.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

For every thing that lives is Holy.

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. A dove-house filled with doves and pigeons Shudders hell through all its regions.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

Little Fly Thy summers play, My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink & sing: Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath: And the want Of thought is death; Then am I A happy fly, If I live, Or if I die

The Garden of Love I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.