Nature Quotes - Page 12

• To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Eye, Science, Men

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• My profession is to always find God in nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Profession, Nature Beauty, God And Nature

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• I am in love with the green earth.

  Charles Lamb

  Garden, Earth, Green

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• One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Travel, Animal, Journey

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Men, Firsts

  "The Alps and Pyrenees".

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  Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
  That's a' the learning I desire.

  Robert Burns

  Teacher, Teaching, Fire

  'Epistle to J. L[aprai]k' (1786) st. 13

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• Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Way, Environment, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2268, Delphi Classics

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• Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Environmental, Pardon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while has broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search.

  Louis Agassiz

  Success, Book, Science

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• All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Spiritual, Symbolism, Facts

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• Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Song, Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.147, University of Georgia Press

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• Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

  Bertrand Russell

  Civilization, Openness, Has Beens

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.64, Routledge

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• The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Mind, Faults, Logical

  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.202, U of Minnesota Press

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• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.

  Joseph Campbell

  Animal, Sea, Ideas

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

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• We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.‎

  John Muir

  Science, Glasses, Rocks

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.161, Library of America

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• So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sleep, Hands, Knowing

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.848, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Attributes, Mapping

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1846). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.90

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• O Nature, gracious mother of us all,
  Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie
  Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye
  That seeks and waits.

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Mother, Lying, Eye

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• I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Men, Particular, Interiors

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• Nature ever faithful is
  To such as trust her faithfulness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faithful, Faithfulness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.69, The Floating Press

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• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Summer, Sweet, Rain

  "Trees" l. 11 (1913)

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• Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.

  Aldo Leopold

  Hate, Hands, Land

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.556, Library of America

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• Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Animal, Giving, Long

  Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”

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• Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens.

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Book, Garden

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