Nature Quotes - Page 37

• Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.

  Zhuangzi

  Doe, Satisfied

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• All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

  Blaise Pascal

  World, Visible, Bosoms

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.158

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• The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fall, Whales, Finest

  Letter, The Public Advertiser, 22 May 1765.

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• REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Moles, Stories

  Ambrose Bierce (2000). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories”, p.18, Penguin

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• Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Strong, Powerful

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• If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

  Aristotle

  Art, Men, Illustration

  Aristotle (1960). “Aristotle, the Physics”

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• All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Water, Born

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• Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

  Alexander Pope

  School, Mazes, Fool

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 26

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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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• This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sea, Way, Damage

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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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• Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

  Xunzi

  Giving, Criminals, Way

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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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• Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Mother, New Orleans, Cities

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• There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older, it's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

  Ray Stevens

  Attitude, Lying, Eye

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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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• Like the sun, we are attracted to people who shine with warmth and brightness.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Attitude, Law Of Attraction, People

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• But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

  Gavin de Beer

  Science, Men, Humanity

  Sir Gavin De Beer (1956). “Science and the humanities”

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• I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Cutting, Animal, Thinking

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• The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

  Edward Tufte

  Thinking, Law, Tasks

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• So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.

  Stephen Wolfram

  Years, Computer, Possibility

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• If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways.

  Edward Witten

  Way, Dimensions, Bigs

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• We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Native Language, Lines, Dissecting

  "Science and Linguistics" (1946)

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• My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

  Cynthia Weil

  Proud, Linear, Feels

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• Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Play, Levels, Comedy

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