Nature Quotes - Page 35

• Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.

  Tertullian

  Teacher, Soul, Taught

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• The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

  John Burroughs

  Flower, Smell, Grace

  John Burroughs (2008). “Pepacton”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

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• Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Fate, Blow, Evil

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• There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Black, Melancholy, Midst

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.84, Graphic Arts Books

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• Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Government, Sovereign

  Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank, 23 Feb. 1791

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• The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

  Aldous Huxley

  Flavor, May, Infinite

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• For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.

  James Dwight Dana

  Ice, Feet, Australia

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• We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Agency, Pyramids

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.461, Broadview Press

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• Life is like a field, where we must gather what we grow, weed or wheat... this is the law, we reap the crop we sow.

  Patience Strong

  Positive, Weed, Law Of Attraction

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• Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks and yellows, all tinged by the familiar transparent blue of the sea.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Wall, Blue, Sea

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.

  James Dwight Dana

  Water, May, Mass

  James Dwight Dana (1872). “Corals and Coral Islands”, p.98

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• Everything is beautiful in it's own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day. And everybody's beautiful in their own way. Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find the way.

  Ray Stevens

  Beautiful, Summer, Attitude

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• The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Commitment, Race, Action

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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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• It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand.

  Galileo Galilei

  Mind, Want, Matter

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• [Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

  George Berkeley

  Cheer, Water, Constitution

  'Siris' (1744) para. 217.

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• We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

  Arthur Eddington

  Mind, Found

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• Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Stoic, Motto, Knows

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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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• There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

  Ralph Bunche

  Problem, Humans, Human Nature

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• For man is by nature an artist.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Artist, Men

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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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• 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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• Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Mold, Broke, Made

  'Orlando Furioso' (1532) canto 10, st. 84

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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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