Nature Quotes - Page 16

• If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Learning, Cat

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• The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Travel, Journey

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.218

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• The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Principles, Coercion

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• If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

  Joseph Addison

  Delight, Cry, Virtue

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.497

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• We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Science, Men

  'The Descent of Man' (1871) closing words

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• It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.

  Maimonides

  Philosophical, Animal, Men

  Moses Maimonides (2010). “The Guide of the Perplexed”, p.452, University of Chicago Press

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• It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Life Is, Turns, Natural Environment

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• PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Punishment, Pharaohs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Garden, Essentials, Example

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “Essays: First Series”, p.321

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• We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.

  Janet Morris

  War, Men, Clay

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.187, Paradise Publishing

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• Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Knowing, Years

  William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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• We shall not cease from exploration

  T. S. Eliot

  Exploration, Cease

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.

  Janet Morris

  Reality, Risk, Magic

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.214, Paradise Publishing

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• We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humility, Pride, Thinking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.216

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• There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

  Thomas Browne

  Space, Unnecessary, Framed

  Sir Thomas Browne (1736). “Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: Or, the Christian Religion, as Professed by a Physician; Freed from Priest-craft and the Jargon of Schools”, p.17

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• I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

  George MacDonald

  Beautiful, Principles, Capricious

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.1681, Delphi Classics

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• Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.

  Thomas Cole

  Art, Perfection, World

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• Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

  Blaise Pascal

  Roots, Mind, Fruit

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• "... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."

  Charles de Lint

  Simple, Perfect, Example

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• A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

  Llewelyn Powys

  Wise, Men, Tree

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

  Janet Morris

  Honesty, Integrity, Ontology

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.292, Paradise Publishing

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• But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

  Aristotle

  Science, Imperfect, Infinite

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1112, Princeton University Press

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• To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

  Miles Franklin

  Growing Up, Animal, Vegetables

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.75, ETT Imprint

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• One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.353, Vintage

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• Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Morning, Rain, Littles

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.54, The Floating Press

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