When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it’s the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It’s better than art because it’s from the creator.
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance… We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
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.
The earth laughs in flowers.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
My real personality comes out in the country. More spontaneous, more excited. There’s always someone watching you in the city – you’re a sort of zoo animal. My true nature is to want to hide a bit.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer’s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.
I’m cursed with empathy. I’m also by nature way too opinionated.
Modern science says: ‘The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.’ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
I’m continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature’s greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people’s faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses – on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It’s just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I’m not stingy.
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
The skull is nature’s sculpture.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It’s the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it – no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
I’m a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there’s fresh air. Apart from that, I’m a film addict and a DVD freak.
Man is nature’s sole mistake.
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread – the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Scenery is fine – but human nature is finer.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
