Nature Quotes - Page 19

• Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

  Jacob Bronowski

  Wisdom, Men, Understanding

  Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252

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• If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Progress, Decay

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2120, Delphi Classics

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• The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Beautiful, Time, Writing

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

  James Anthony Froude

  Self, Denial, Austerity

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.24

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• 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.

  Theodore Parker

  Nice, Butterfly, Fire

  Theodore Parker “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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• Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

  James Howell

  Advice, Doe, Research

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• Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kingdoms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Essays”, p.27

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• Nature means Necessity.

  Philip James Bailey

  Mean

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.7

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• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Earth Day, Intelligence

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Men, Lakes, Water

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• External nature is only internal nature writ large.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Internals

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2375, Manonmani Publishers

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• Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Enjoyment, Manly

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.221

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• Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Flower, Tree, Soul

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• All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Business, Miracle

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.250, Yale University Press

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• Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

  Hans Hofmann

  Creative, Mind, Environment

  "Hans Hofmann". Book by Cynthia Goodman, p. 103, 1986.

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• Time is the great workman of Nature.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Time, Science, Great Work

  "Natural History, General and Particular".

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• A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

  John James Audubon

  Children, Father, Men

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• 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.

  William Henry Hudson

  Flower, Ivy, Dandelions

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: The book of a naturalist”

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• In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Accomplishment, Miracle, Green Trees

  "The Wisdom of Wilderness". Life magazine, December 22, 1967.

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• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  Hal Borland

  Squirrels, Earth Day, Bird

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• 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.

  Joanna Macy

  Choices, Mind, Sound

  "On being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 11, 2016.

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• 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.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Depth, Frugality, Doings

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.18

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• In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Invention, Lacking

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

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• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Passion, Long, Feelings

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.21, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

  Margaret Atwood

  Spring, Garden, Taste And Smell

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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