Wonder Of Nature Quotes - Page 2

• The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills.

  Arika Okrent

  Color, Skills, Tangled

  Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.5, Spiegel & Grau

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• The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Beauty, Spiritual, Men

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• No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

  Tom Watson

  Sports, Golf, Games

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• The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Landscape, Wonder

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• I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

  Lewis Carroll

  Good Night, Summer, Nature

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.4, PDFreeBooks.org

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• The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.

  Max Lucado

  Promise, Scripture, Wonder

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

  John Heywood

  Music, Nature, Silence

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats.

  Woody Allen

  Summer, June, Tree

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Men and women in all parts of the world have a desperate need to take time from their demanding routines of everyday life and to quietly observe God's miracles taking place all around them. Think of what would happen if all of us took time to look carefully at the wonders of nature that surround us and devoted ourselves to learning more about this world that God created for us!

  M. Russell Ballard

  Nature, Men, Thinking

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• All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from a wonder of nature to this sluggish canal on the wrong side of the tracks.

  Jonathan Raban

  Technology, Rivers, Track

  Jonathan Raban (1981). “Old Glory, an American Voyage”, Simon & Schuster

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• For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident appendix (1986)

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• There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

  Alan Watts

  Laughter, Believe, Miracle

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• It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sides, Wonder, Used

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.330, A&C Black

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• To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Miracle, Serious, Wonder

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• In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Summer, Loneliness, Men

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