Quotes About Nature

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.

There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.

Migratory birds connect people, ecosystems, and nations. They are symbols of peace and of an interconnected planet.

You can go from object to object, from plant to plant, from animal to animal and regard them as symbols for the spiritual. In this way, you make your imaginative capacities fluid and release them from the sharp contours of sense perception.

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

There's a symmetry of blissfulness about Mongolia. It was a real privilege to be there.

Symmetry principles are principles governing the laws of nature that say those laws look the same if you change your point of view in certain ways.

People aren't inherently sympathetic.

People do get hurt by jellyfish, as they do by sharks and spiders, and I have great sympathy for the anguish and pain these effects may cause, but if you pay any attention to the statistics it is clear that nature is not out to get us.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Paul is synonymous with the ocean.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

In the words of the Joni Mitchell song, we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Real food, Pollan points out, is not fast. Like all good things, it takes time: one way or another, it grows, and the closer we are to that process, the healthier and happier we're likely to be.

a kid snatched from the jaws of a savage wolf," which sounds suspiciously like the first-century equivalent of roadkill.

the medieval Doctrine of Signatures held that the shapes of plants constituted a broad hint from the Almighty as to their uses in healing.

She was a lovely woman, fitted both by nature and education to be an ornament to society and her family.

For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.