Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she’s going to come around and whack you. You’ve got to be prepared.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.
What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Quetzalcoatl is a primal idea of the duality of human nature. The serpent is the embodiment of Heaven and Earth. It scares people in many ways.
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
For all of nature’s wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
Nature hasn’t gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.
Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
I say you don’t need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Behind every cloud is another cloud.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
The highest-quality protein in nature is whey.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
I have always believed that your face is a mirror to your nature.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.
The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
Moonlight is sculpture.
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
There’s design, and there’s art. Good design is total harmony. There’s no better designer than nature – if you look at a branch or a leaf, it’s perfect. It’s all function. Art is different. It’s about emotion. It’s about suffering and beauty – but mostly suffering!
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you’re getting insights about God.
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.