Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?
Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.
Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.
Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Nature means Necessity.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
Time is the great workman of Nature.
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.
Search out the wisdom of nature, there is depth in all her doings; she seemeth prodigal of power, yet her rules are the maxims of frugality.
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
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