Nature Quotes - Page 33

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

  Dick Black

  Risk, Losing, Couches

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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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• 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 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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• Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

  Xunzi

  Heaven, Supplies, Humans

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• Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

  Athenaeus

  Principles, Investigation, Stomach

  Athenaeus (1854). “The Deipnosophists Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus: With an Appendix of Poetical Fragments, Rendered Into English Verse by Various Authors and a General Index : in Three Volumes”, p.439

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• The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

  Stacy Allison

  Travel, Climbing, Air

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• Nature will not be admired by proxy.

  Winston Churchill

  Proxy

  Winston Churchill (2012). “The Story of the Malakand Field Force”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

  Chief Seattle

  Air, Land, Sky

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• In the garden
  I see only your face
  From trees and blossoms
  I inhale only your fragrance.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Garden, Tree

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• Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Children, Bending Down, Together

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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• Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

  Naomi Weisstein

  World, Psychologist, Found

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• Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Lasts, Furniture

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• How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Intellectual, Important, Moral

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.66, Yale University Press

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• True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature. . . . It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely.

  Dennis Merzel

  Letting Go, Taoism, Doe

  Dennis Genpo Merzel (1991). “The Eye Never Sleeps”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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• Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

  Zhuangzi

  Intelligent, Taoism, Ease

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• Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Spiritual, Passion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.238, Penguin

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• Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?

  Annie Dillard

  Flower, Pet, Doe

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• There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

  Alexis Carrel

  Art

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• If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Law, Needs

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'The Pond inWinter'.

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