Quotes About Nature

the implications of the amazing new fact of nature called nonlocality cannot be properly understood without some familiarity with the actual history of scientific thought.

While he affirms the dignity and significance of human personhood he understands that apart from God man is simply a biological machine, an accident of nature, a cipher.

The term "river voices" was coined by Frank O. Shaw when he and Richard Baldwin camped here in 1932. The men mistook the gurgling sounds made by the Dosewallips for the indistinct murmur of voices in the distance. They looked up, expecting to see a troop of Scouts coming up the trail, only to realize they had been deceived by the river.

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.

You seemed all brown and soft, just like a linnet, Your errant hair had shadowed sunbeams in it, And there shone all April In your eyes.

The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

Nothing but trees.

The road simply ended. No cul-de-sac. No sign like the ones they had seen before: "Private Property. No Trespassing." Or "No Motorized Vehicles Beyond This Point." Just road...then trees.

Henry would never know how good it could feel when a running wind chilled the sweat in your hair

We cut ourselves off from our own roots, the roots of our being, and the very laws of our human nature. This one-sided focus puts us, today, in grave danger, because the violation of our own laws of nature brings about individual and social catastrophes.

There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us not to talk about the rest of us.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Thereís no music like a little riverís ... It takes the mind out of doors ... and... sir, it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delightOf birdsong at morning and starshine at night.

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,With eyes of gold and bramble dew,Steel-true and blade-straightThe great artificerMade my mate.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.