NATURE QUOTES III

quotations about nature

Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Dialectic of Enlightenment

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Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

ECKHART TOLLE

Stillness Speaks

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October is Nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life.... Every green thing loves to die in bright colors.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Nature does not make leaps.

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ

Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain

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When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Method of Nature

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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

MICHEL FOUCAULT

History of Sexuality

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Nature seems to have neglected no opportunity for ornament. Think of the trees in winter, and the pattern of the twigs against the sky; how the naked branches spread out into the semblance of huge seaweeds in still water. To see them rimed with frost, or after a fresh fall of snow, is a new revelation of their beauty. In spring, when the branches begin to burgeon and to glow with colour, they look more than ever like seaweeds. And individual buds, when you get near enough to distinguish them, have always a character and beauty of their own.

LEWIS FOREMAN DAY

Nature and Ornament

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That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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The world's a scene of changes, and to be
Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.

ABRAHAM COWLEY

Inconstancy

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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

ANATOLE FRANCE

The Revolt of the Angels

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Plant seeds and watch them grow. Learn along with the plant. Don't worry if you don't have a green thumb. Nature is so resilient.

KATHRYN KOCARNIK

"Growing young gardeners", Los Angeles Daily News, August 14, 2017


All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE

Religio Medici

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Thus the men whom nature's works can charm, with God himself hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, with his conceptions; act upon his plan; and form to his, the relish of their souls.

MARK AKENSIDE

The Pleasures of Imagination

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But, even though we are a technological species, we are now out of balance. To thrive, we need more nature and more wild forms of interaction with more wild nature; I doubt we need tons of new technology.

PETER KAHN

"Technology is changing our relationship with nature as we know it", Quartz, August 8, 2017


Use Nature well and she will recompense thee well.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Nature is a temple where living pillars
Sometimes emit confused words;
There man passes through the forests of symbols
Which observe him with familiar looks.

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Correspondences

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Nature ... is uniform. There is no sign of accident or caprice, or the arbitrary, fitful interference of a superior power, but the things of nature proceed onward from age to age with a solemn, majestic movement--an august procession that strikes the contemplative beholder with awe, and expands and lifts his soul with indescribable emotions of sublimity and grandeur.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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The artist labors while he may,
But finds at best too brief the day;
And, tho' his works outlast the time
And nation that they make sublime,
He feels and sees that Nature knows
Nothing of time in what she does,
But has a leisure infinite
Wherein to do her work aright.

HENRY ABBEY

"Along the Nile"

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Nature, with equal mind,
Sees all her sons at play,
Sees man control the wind,
The wind sweep man away.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Empedocles on Etna

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