Quotes About Nature

I know of no fact on which Jesus called the people to rest their faith, that they could not as easily judge of, through the medium of their senses as of any facts in nature.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature. Divine light. www.Hkazezian.com - Hovsep Kazezian -

The fog was made more beautiful by its passing, like flags in the spring; like the last drone of cicadas in a dying summer; like the brief yellow of hickories, the purple of sweetgums, in the fall. You loved most the things that passed away, that you couldn't hold on to, no matter how much you loved them.

Rain says a noise: shh. You can hear it when it comes down. It is God telling us to be quiet.

Perhaps nature rations tears. That would be very sensible. You are born with three million one hundred and seventy-two potential tears, and you can use them up by the time you are eighteen or you can conserve them.

Man is a part of God, or else he is a beast; and beasts know love and fear and hate and hunger--but not exultation

If nature contact were a medication, we would be prescribing it to everybody.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be essentially good and loyal. It just wasn't written in a man's nature to be monogamous, that was all. And he owed something to his nature even when his nature was at odds with his desire, which was to stay at home and cherish his wife. It was his nature – all nature, the rule of nature – that was the bastard, not him.

Michael Ruse's The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979

Mill's Methods, as they are called, have indeed proven useful in the conduct of science. Journals such as Nature and Science, and popular magazines like New Scientist and Scientific American regularly report studies based on versions of these methods

In his stimulating book Knowledge and Its Place in Nature (2002), Kornblith addresses the claim that epistemic norms must appeal to a priori intuitions. The standard practice of philosophical

Personality is by nature incongruous, being a product of time. Time, at any given moment, tends to obscure this.

Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry" Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle That while you watched turned to pieces of snow Riding a gradient invisible From silver aslant to random, white, and slow. There came a moment that you couldn't tell. And then they clearly flew instead of fell.

I was convinced that birds were kinds of souls. Not the souls of people but of previous birds whose mystery and beauty were so necessary on earth that God would not allow them to be anything in their second life but birds again.

In the morning, look out and let the landscape take up full residence in your heart before all is intervened by the sound of human voices.

I might die from a bear attack; I could also succumb to a rattlesnake or a puma, slip down a rocky ravine, have a tree branch fall on my head, choke on beef jerky, or any other of a million unanticipated disasters. That's the thrill of backcountry exploration. My vulnerability is exquisite. If I don't watch out for me, no one else will.

For the next several miles our trail winds through dramatically lush growth, so vigorous that the trail is completely covered... And, as you physically penetrate this living wall it occurs to you just how far civilization is being left behind.

The religious mysteries direct us toward the true nature of reality that we are unaware of. Religion opens our mind and spirit to the greater reality. Much of what we call supernatural is only what we don't understand.

The quiet, even the danger, of the woods provided my rather lonely spirit with a sense of belonging that did not depend on human relationships.

Gravestones tell truth scarcely fourty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old Families last not three Oaks.' – Browne, Urn Burial, 1658

Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not real happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping.