Quotes About Nature

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

All men by nature desire to know.

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.

Out of Africa, there is always something new.

Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

A lion never roars after a kill.

After you plant a seed in the ground, you don't dig it up every week to see how it is doing

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops.

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

The fragile ego of a poor leader can not resist the urge to tug at the delicate fabric of good order and disipline thus unraveling their own true nature.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.