If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
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.
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.
"... 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."
We shall not cease from exploration
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.
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.
Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.
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.
It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.
Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.
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.
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.
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.
There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.
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