Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned she receives us into the circuits of her dance drifting onward with us herself until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
Why Madam do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughters? Go home and cut it; let Nature have fair play and you will have no need of my advice.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not Nature is party to all our deals and decisions and she has more votes a longer memory and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination Nature is Imagination itself.
Nature is not cruel pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil neither cruel nor kind but simply callous indifferent to all suffering lacking all purpose.
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do since when one comes down to it there is not one effect in nature no matter how small that even the most speculative minds can fully understand.
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise eternal sunset eternal dawn and glowing on sea and continues and islands each in its turn as the round earth rolls.
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow The after?light upon ice?burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.
To waste to destroy our natural resources to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
Of all the things that oppress me this sense of the evil working of nature herself my disgust at her barbarity clumsiness darkness bitter mockery of herself is the most desolating.
Art is Mans nature. Nature is Gods art.
Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in our nature.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye looking on finds its own.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands her Business better than we do.
Nature is no spendthrift but takes the shortest way to her ends.
Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned she receives us into the circuits of her dance drifting onward with us herself until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
To a lady who said that a landscape reminded her of his work: Yes madam Nature is creeping up.
Why Madam do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughters? Go home and cut it; let Nature have fair play and you will have no need of my advice.
I am at two with nature.
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
What I know of the divine science and Holy Scriptures I learnt in woods and fields.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge more than money more than honor.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not Nature is party to all our deals and decisions and she has more votes a longer memory and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination Nature is Imagination itself.
Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.
The groves were Gods first temples.
Never no never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour if we only will tune in.
Nature is not cruel pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil neither cruel nor kind but simply callous indifferent to all suffering lacking all purpose.
Nature is what we know Yet have not art to say So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.
Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness but not by means of ruse.
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do since when one comes down to it there is not one effect in nature no matter how small that even the most speculative minds can fully understand.
Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.
Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise eternal sunset eternal dawn and glowing on sea and continues and islands each in its turn as the round earth rolls.
Man must go back to nature for information.
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow The after?light upon ice?burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.
To waste to destroy our natural resources to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
Nature provides a free lunch but only if we control our appetites.
Of all the things that oppress me this sense of the evil working of nature herself my disgust at her barbarity clumsiness darkness bitter mockery of herself is the most desolating.
By natures kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a mans power to answer do not occur to him at all.
The earth does not belong to man man belongs to the earth.
For greed all nature is too little.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
For man autumn is a time of harvest of gathering together. For nature it is a time of sowing of scattering abroad.
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
Nature abhors a vacuum and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
O to be self-balanced for contingencies To confront night storms hunger ridicule accidents rebuffs as the trees and the animals do.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic intellectual cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.