Quotes About Nature

Although attempting to bridge the gulf which separated the real from the unreal, he refused to treat the latter supernaturally. That mystery which lesser minds found in the occult, he saw in nature all about him. He denied the existence of spirits, just as he urged the foolishness of the will-o'-the-wisps of former ages,—alchemy and the black art.

Men do wrong to lament the flight of time, complaining that it passes too quickly and failing to perceive that its period is sufficiently long; but a good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes everything that is long past to appear to us to be present.

Certainly it seems that nature desires to exterminate the human race, as a thing useless to the world, and the destroyer of all created things.

A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity

Tomaso of Florence. known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress of masters, were laboring in vain.

Las ostras se abren por completo cuando hay Luna llena; y cuando los cangrejos ven una ostra abierta, tiran dentro de ella una piedrita o un trozo de alga, a fin de que la ostra no pueda volver a cerrarse y el cangrejo pueda devorarla. Este es también el destino de quien abre demasiado la boca, con lo cual se pone a merced del que lo escucha.

The banks of life cannot hold my love, which is as broad as the sea.

The owners who had arrived at the bungalow were very kind people, and all the more so now that they were far from the city breathing pure air, seeing around them everything green, and blue and harmless. The sunlight went into them in warmth, and came out again in laughter and goodwill towards all things living.

Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their valleys can understand why I wish to describe and depict these magic scenes for others.

Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.

Faith is walking with God. If you get up in the mornings angry and screaming at everybody, you are not demonstrating that you have a bad temper so much as you are demonstrating that you don't have faith. When you walk with God, you demonstrate His nature.

Earth Day was created because we were doing a lot of drugs, more drugs than you could ever f@*! imagine. And so we came up with Earth Day, so we'd have one day that would remind us what planet we were living on.

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

Do you suppose she's a wildflower?

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies...

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?

Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.

It's a large as life and twice as natural

In most gardens, the Tiger-lily said, they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep.

I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.' 'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do, why then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say.

In spring, when woods are getting green, I'll try and tell you what I mean.

whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up

And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach. The prettiest are always further! she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off.