Nature Quotes - Page 8

• I can pass days
  Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees,
  Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,--
  The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,
  Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf
  A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fall, Sunshine, Blessing

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1838). “Poetical works complete”, p.124

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• The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

  Philip James Bailey

  Courses, Whole, Seems

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• Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Garden, Religion

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• Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

  Rachel Carson

  Change, Men, Rivers

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

  Max Planck

  Science, World, Vastness

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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  Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

  John Muir

  Peace, Sunshine, Autumn

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  Standing Bear

  Inspirational, Life, Flower

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• Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Invites

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.

  John Muir

  Morning, Sleep, Squirrels

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.235, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

  Hamlin Garland

  Fall, Cities, Yellow

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• The mountains are calling and I must go.

  John Muir

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.190, The Mountaineers Books

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• How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!

  William Shakespeare

  Sparks, Hard

  William Shakespeare, Michael Henry RANKIN (1841). “The Philosophy of Shakspere, Extracted from His Plays, and Interspersed with Remarks, by M. H. Rankin”, p.140

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• Nature tells every secret once.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Secret, Natural

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Science, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

  Claude Monet

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Claude Monet (1985). “Monet: a retrospective”

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• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Gratitude, Food

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

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• Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

  Rajneesh

  Gratitude, Stars, Cheer

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• a culture is no better than its woods

  W. H. Auden

  Woods, Climate, Culture

  Shield of Achilles (1955) "Bucolics"

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• A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

  Alexander Pope

  Tree, Robes, Coronation

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.574, Oxford University Press

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• Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Science, Ideas, Scientist

  1887 A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

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• We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Sight, Growth

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.205, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Motivational, Animal, Pet

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• A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

  George Nakashima

  Tree, Humanity, Woodworking

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• All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

  Aristotle

  Art, Supplements

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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