Nature Quotes - Page 33

• We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

  Clarence Day

  Sound, Mastery, Way

  Clarence Day (1997). “This Simian World”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.

  Stephen Harper

  Animal, Wilderness, Enough

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• You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

  Hal Borland

  Weed, Monday, Adversity

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• It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.

  Edward Goldsmith

  Real, Animal, May

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• To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Journey, Garden, Hiking

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• The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower.

  William C. Bryant

  Flower, Rose, Lovely Things

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• For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wine, Men, Cake

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• We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

  Dick Black

  Risk, Losing, Couches

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• The most devilish thing is 8 times 8 and 7 times 7 it is what nature itselfe cant endure.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Endure, Cant, Devilish

  'Journal' p. 47

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• And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

  John Milton

  Son

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.577

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• Human reason is by nature architectonic.

  Immanuel Kant

  Reason, Humans, Human Reason

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.297

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• What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

  John Stuart Mill

  Play, Giving, Made

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “The Subjection of Women”, p.48, Hayes Barton Press

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• The source of nature is spirit.

  Larry Gates

  Religion, Gardening, Spirit

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• Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

  Immanuel Kant

  Fate, Peculiar, Answers

  Immanuel Kant (1995). “Kant”, Element Books

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• Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wealth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.73, Harvard University Press

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• To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.

  Robert Rodale

  Inspirational, Art, Work

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• When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ties, Faults, Bears

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

  Laozi

  Expectations, Four, Rewards

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• I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Eye, Escaping, Lasts

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• Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

  John Milton

  Graves, Womb, His Dark Materials

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.160

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• In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.

  Niels Bohr

  Real, Essence, Track

  Niels Bohr (2011). “Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays with an Introductory Survey”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two.

  John Dryden

  Two, Age, Majesty

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.139

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• Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

  Laozi

  Moving, Enlightenment, Clarity

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Worn, Plans

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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