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Nature Quotes
"Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home."
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"Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks."
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"A gentle breeze rustled through the leaves, bringing with it the scent of fresh-turned earth and lavender blossoms. Amanda drew to the side of the balcony, where she was completely concealed from view. As she leaned against the wall of the house, the rough texture of the red brick gently abraded her bare shoulders.She had worn a pale blue, corded-silk gown with a low-cut back, and draperies of gauze that crossed over the bodice in an X pattern. The long sleeves of the gown were made of more transparent gauze, while her hands were encased in white gloves. The flash of her bare arms beneath the filmy blue silk made Amanda feel sophisticated and daring."
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"Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box."
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"Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know."
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"Lightning hides the colour of night."
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"If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things."
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"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself."
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"Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder."
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"We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by expressing compassion and sympathy for the entire community of life."
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"Look deep deep into nature and then you will understand everything better."
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"American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature."
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"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
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"No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious."
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"It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil."
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"It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual."
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"Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive."
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"I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature."
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"For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence."
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"We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second."
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"A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods."
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"The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it."
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"For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."
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"I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others."
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"Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful."
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"I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days."
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"They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory."
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"All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers."
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"If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order."
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