Quotes About Perspective

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.

The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and "not enough" to the positive frame of aligning with Nature.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.

What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

Nature is usually wrong.