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Nature Quotes
"The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels."
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"One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera."
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"The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face."
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"I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry."
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"If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways."
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"The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances."
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"Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other."
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"The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature."
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"It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles."
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"First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it."
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"The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship."
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"Sometimes in my tent, last at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping, against the sky."
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"Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean."
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"Walking in the mountain with bare foot, Teasing the flowers with heavy soot, Touching the grasses, climbing the horses, swinging the girlsIt is joyful, jolly like the flying. Swimming in the rivers, tearing the clothes and burning the shoes Angel of the nature; counting the grasses, touching the flower, teasing the birds."
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"The earth and sky are like two mirrors facing each other."
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"Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward - and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs - only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms."
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"I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me."
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"In a world of lovelightning and rainbow are lovers now. They arc and strike upon the horizon of credence to rise above their cloudy vow."
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"The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages."
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"The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old."
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"Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature."
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"The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject."
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"Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers."
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"We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world."
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"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."
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"Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society."
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"My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries."
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"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
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"Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?"
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"Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature."
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"Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature."
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