I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."[Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842] Votes: 1
When is the last time your computer restarted you? Don't forget about nature. Recreation means to re-create yourself. Votes: 1
Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce. Votes: 1
Generations of readers, bored with their own alienating, repetitious jobs, have been mesmerized by Crusoe's essential, civilization-building chores. Votes: 1
Consciousness of the world itself is nature. And when you destroy nature you block off consciousness from the world. Votes: 1
Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. Votes: 1
Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness. Votes: 1
What brought us together was a love of nature, or, more specifically, of catching things and unintentionally killing them. Votes: 1
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. Votes: 1
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble. Votes: 1
They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system. Votes: 1
Lion, lion golden spunin savannahs of the sun,What immortal eye, or handweaves beasts from dreams,sews sky to land~? Votes: 1
Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men. Votes: 1
If you see those pretty thingsthat nature likes to showRemember all those seals that singAnd leave them there to grow. Votes: 1
I am somewhere in the middle of a village with all the modern amenities. There's something missing. Life? I reckon.... Votes: 1
Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected. Votes: 1
Trees were made of vibrant green leaves sitting on the shoulders of shy green leaves too embarrassed to show themselves. Votes: 1
Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life. Votes: 1
Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed. Votes: 1
Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented. Votes: 1
Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work. Votes: 1
[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature. Votes: 1
Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies. Votes: 1
Nature is powerful and beautiful,Nature is destructive and creative,Nature is amazing and wonderful,Nature is loving and graceful. Votes: 1
Nature is the ultimate technology; a technology we are still too immature, arrogant, possessive and careless to care for responsibly. Votes: 1
An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. Votes: 1
BeautyIs the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic.If, after severalApplications, you do not findRelief, consult your family physician Votes: 1
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees... Votes: 1
Shall earth no more inspire thee,Thou lonely dreamer now?Since passion may not fire thee,Shall nature cease to bow~? Votes: 1
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. Votes: 1
If you are open to receiving the essential nature of life, its intelligence will flow through you like a great river. Votes: 1
Never, oh! never, nothing will die;The stream flows,The wind blows,The cloud fleets,The heart beats,Nothing will die. Votes: 1
Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface.I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed. Votes: 1
Our Higher Self: The part of us that is connected to nature and also humanity" from Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret Votes: 1
Listen to the murmur of water and you'll hear Mother Nature.Listen to the stillness beneath, and there you'll find God. Votes: 1
Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations. Votes: 1
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. Votes: 1
It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty. Votes: 1
-a superb moon, round as a pumpkin and golden as honey, filling the rooftop world with light, and deep, mysterious shadow. Votes: 1
Strengthen the weak, for mother nature provides ways to strengthen you; and that's the beauty of life we need one another. Votes: 1
It was great to see the owls," I said.She smiled."Yes. They're wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They're wonderful. Votes: 1
If existance of something cannot be proved scientifically, it only means that science is not equipped to prove it right now. Votes: 1
Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration. Votes: 1
when god did something it become Natural Disaster. when man did the same thing it become TERRORISM! Where is consistency Bitch! Votes: 1
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans. Votes: 1
So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition. Votes: 1
An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea. Votes: 1
With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before. Votes: 1
Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the airOf mountains, and their unapproachable summitsWill lift thee to the level of themselves. Votes: 1
Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature. Votes: 1
Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains~? Votes: 1
Struggle was the explanation behind all the most troubling biological mysteries: species differentiation, species extinction, and species transmutation. Struggle explained everything Votes: 1
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself. Votes: 1
The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset~? Votes: 1
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. Votes: 1
The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me~? Votes: 1
It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past. Votes: 1
Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion. Votes: 1
There's nothing quite like the pleasure you get from plants and flower," he said to himself. "They certainly do cheer you up. Votes: 1
For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man. Votes: 1
When you go against the flow of nature and betray the spiritual laws existing within, there will always be a negative reaction. Votes: 1
Ah yes, the beauty of nature...once we understand life's delicateness, then we will surely protect and cherish all of its forms. Votes: 1
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. Votes: 1
Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way. Votes: 1
The real world, in my opinion, exists in the countryside, where Nature goes about her quiet business and brings us greatest pleasure. Votes: 1
The immediate impact of its soaring peaks induced a silence so impregnated with its powerful presence that even Edith was struck dumb. Votes: 1
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations. Votes: 1
We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands. Votes: 1
The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed. Votes: 1
Everyone is a salesman, and the product is each person. Personal branding is being conscious to the continual nature of selling yourself. Votes: 1
Nature haters? We know them too well: lifeless creatures created without emotion or aware of anything that is peripheral to their purpose. Votes: 1
I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty. Votes: 1
Nature is inexhaustibly sustainable if we care for it. It is our universal responsibility to pass a healthy earth onto future generations. Votes: 1
The River SwishDeftly maneuvered through the dark green abyss ~The wooden raft seemed in tune with this ~Canorous rush of theriver swish.... Votes: 1
Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe. Votes: 1
holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free. Votes: 1
One 'beautiful-mind' indeed weighs heavy over thousand creations of natureand that is why from Socrates to Kabir, all hold such great importance. Votes: 1
The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be. Votes: 1
The trees at Cloudwalk have been my friends for forty years. I'm sure if I were sawed in half, our rings would match. Votes: 1
There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean. Votes: 1
It is only a barbarous mind that sees other than the flower, merely an animal mind that dreams of other than the moon. Votes: 1
That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.But you also get kind of used to it. Votes: 1
Magic is a funny term,' she'd say. 'There is nothing supernatural about the earth. As long as you know what does what. Votes: 1
There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space. Votes: 1
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. Votes: 1
As the natural world grows smaller, so too does its intensity and the size of the window through which it may be viewed. Votes: 1
In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature. Votes: 1
Using my nipples as bait, I went fishing for compliments. I got a few bites, but nothing to write about in Field & Stream. Votes: 1
Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it. Votes: 1
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them. Votes: 1
For more irresponsible that human beings can be, nature always finds (not always healthy) a way to teach us how to be treated. Votes: 1
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils Votes: 1
We must remember that nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care. Votes: 1
All about us the earth steamed; mists rose up toward heaven like clouds of incense; a shattered rainbow still hovered in the air. Votes: 1
Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil") Votes: 1
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. Votes: 1
It was earliest morning, when even small trees cast long shadows and scarlet foxes trot denward through the dew like flecks of fire. Votes: 1
We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life. Votes: 1
Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses. Votes: 1
Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts~? Votes: 1
Dolphins and sharks are natural enemies. Dolphins are like, "Quit eating us," and sharks are like, "Stop smiling all the time, you morons. Votes: 1
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. Votes: 1
I have a problem with state lines, anyway. They interrupt things. They fragment ecosystems, which are nature's most gracious and logical land divisions. Votes: 1
Nature follows the way of the celestial immortals, the never-failing source of inspiration, the eternal masters of this and all sacred medicine traditions. Votes: 1
Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal. Votes: 1
At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature! Votes: 1
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. Votes: 1
Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were. Votes: 1
We are part of nature. We are here to bloom like a flower- to ornate the earth with beauty, love, joy, happiness, and care. Votes: 1
The eye--it cannot choose but see;We cannot bid the ear be still;Our bodies feel, where'er they be,Against or with our will. Votes: 1
Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise Votes: 1
We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man. Votes: 1
Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it. Votes: 1
Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest~? Votes: 1
Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up. Votes: 1
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. Votes: 1
No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation. Votes: 1
Only the trees, only the trees. Like a key they see beyond the mystery, waiting patiently ever holding me while I hold the sky. Votes: 1
Men are more resilient than that, I think. Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope. Votes: 1
Plant the trees just for beauty,If flowers bloom or fruits ripen, Enjoy it as a gift and appreciate nature as a universal giver. Votes: 1
Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old. Votes: 1
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. Votes: 1
The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes. Votes: 1
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Votes: 1
Such a dark green, his eyes. They reminded her of the forest, of all the dangers lying dormant behind that verdant cloak of leaves. Votes: 1
As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night. Votes: 1
The world of nature, at once a vision of exquisite beauty and an arena of brutal savagery, is a dynamic system of delicate balances. Votes: 1
One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future. Votes: 1
Trees shaped like deer should not be ridden like benches if they get stuck up in other trees. No hunting farming allowed. Fishing only. Votes: 1
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Votes: 1
The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold... Votes: 1
Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know. Votes: 1
There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed. Votes: 1
There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream. Votes: 1
If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there's a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face. Votes: 1
I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves. Votes: 1
After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. Votes: 1
If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature. Votes: 1
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. Votes: 1
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity Votes: 1
Bodies always tell the truth. They give us hints of how to listen for it, and to recognize it when we hear or see it. Votes: 1
I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. Votes: 1
It is the nature of creation, no one cares how much you are good or bad, just get famous, they all will walk after you. Votes: 1
We can live in and from the Nature and these Will accept us.Wij kunnen in en van de natuur leven en deze accepteert ons. Votes: 1
Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain,And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again. Votes: 1
We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees as green banners. Votes: 1
Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"..."It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine... Votes: 1
Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,There's more of wisdom in it. Votes: 1
Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world. Votes: 1
If you're smart or rich or luckyMaybe you'll beat the laws of manBut the inner laws of spiritAnd the outer laws of natureNo man can Votes: 1
Every worker should know that by working, he is releasing the nature of God in him. He is becoming creative just like God is creative. Votes: 1
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground. Votes: 1
Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another. Votes: 1
Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natural world' or 'living planet' instead. Votes: 1
Not by human dwellings--not in crowded cities alone, are the sights and sounds of life. The wildest places of the earth are full of them. Votes: 1
Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch! Votes: 1
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. Votes: 1
When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall flat. Votes: 1
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. Votes: 1
Once in a while i am struckall over again... by just how blue the sky appears .. on wind-played autumn mornings, blue enoughto bruise a heart. Votes: 1
Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky. Votes: 1
In the same way, filling a cavity restores to the tooth its natural function of chewing. Healing does not transcend our nature; it respects it. Votes: 1
Think about the change that the world experiences without the aid of the right people and those who love and appreciate the presence of nature. Votes: 1
Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly. Votes: 1
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties Votes: 1
The best thing about being neutral and not believing or disbelieving in anything is that the nature reveals the truth in front of you automatically. Votes: 1
Ugly or beautiful, it is the little creatures that make the world go round. We should celebrate and appreciated them in all their wonderful diversity. Votes: 1
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. Votes: 1
While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing nature. Votes: 1
We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting. Votes: 1
No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it. Votes: 1
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up. Votes: 1
They know no urge of seasons; they feel no kiss of sun, no lash of wind and weather. They live forever by not living at all. Votes: 1
Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust. Votes: 1
A passionate look, touch or a hug on a plant is enough to open your inner eyes than going for a serious yoga and other therapies Votes: 1
By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it. Votes: 1
Albeit i may die sleep not in the coffen of gold and even beer no fruit; but my impact after depart is my particular to paradise. Votes: 1
He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion. Votes: 1
When you enter a lake and when the nature wraps you up tightly never letting you go out, you will be the happiest prisoner on earth! Votes: 1
Just as the calm unruffled lake, mirrors the beauty of a scene, I would reflect to those who read, the joys of love and life serene". Votes: 1
Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are. Votes: 1
I am lover of words... I am wickedly drunk with the magic of words... the poetic nature whispers through and to my very heart and soul. Votes: 1
Man is solid, not liquid. But with the fluid nature of networking, my personal brand would grow faster if I would just go with the flow. Votes: 1
Let the wet earth embrace you firmly, soundly. She needs to be revived, she needs to beat like a heart full of adrenaline inside a chest. Votes: 1
When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money. Votes: 1
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees. Votes: 1
Nature" is another name for the miracles that are so commonplace in our lives that we take for granted and have grown used to seeing them. Votes: 1
Beauty can be found in the most frightening of places. You just have to be open to the possibility that in truth, there's nothing to fear. Votes: 1
Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations. Votes: 1
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature. Votes: 1
...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again. Votes: 1
Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. Votes: 1
This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used. Votes: 1
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty. Votes: 1
Stop and unplug, say I; look around you, at the vastness and greatness of the natural world.Some stop. Others need binoculars to tie their shoelaces. Votes: 1
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. Votes: 1
Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man. Votes: 1
If Twinkies grew on trees, as nature intended, then I would like to irrigate your fertile valley. When we make love, bring your own knitting equipment. Votes: 1
Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture. Votes: 1
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) Votes: 1
Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change. Votes: 1
Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death. Votes: 1
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased. Votes: 1
Madame Gherardi maintained that love, like most other blessings of civilisation, was a chimaera which we desire the more, the further removed we are from Nature. Votes: 1
I glimpsed the contour of a wide river, its surface glittering white. Dead trees haunted its edges, their limbs stretching skywards, as if begging for forgiveness Votes: 1
For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological. Votes: 1
To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.[Diary entry, 1971] Votes: 1
Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next... Votes: 1
...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled. Votes: 1
Earth is sad, Moon is shy, Sun is happy but wait a moment, I just forgot to tell you that I am the child of open sky. Votes: 1
Maybe iT Goes Sometimes not so fast in nature, but it show us every time again that it never will give up and how powerful it is. Votes: 1
Because the birdsong might be pretty,But it's not for you they sing,And if you think my winter is too cold,You don't deserve my spring. Votes: 1
I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out. Votes: 1
Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature. Votes: 1
You have friends and one of them is your best friend. And now, make the nature as your second best friend and spend time often with it! Votes: 1
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him. Votes: 1
Time spent in nature is time realizing that you don't know it all, that you never will. The earth is meant to be enjoyed by its inhabitants. Votes: 1
Truth of beauty not known by anyoneLike a dimple the truth is deep,Every one enjoys the beauty of bodyBut no one enjoys the beauty of nature Votes: 1
We have heard her shouting among the mountains,"And with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the roaring of lions. Votes: 1
How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!"Grover shrugged. "It's nature," he said. "Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse. Votes: 1
I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom. Votes: 1
Looking for a queen or a king to respect, then I suggest you nature which is a real queen, a real king: Generous, creative, almighty and just! Votes: 1
Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown. Votes: 1
As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away. Votes: 1
Every known thing used to be unknownAnd every rock could become a stone Someday nature will have to atone When soul sees dead flesh leaving the bone Votes: 1
He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here. Votes: 1
Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence. Votes: 1
The renewal and beauty of nature is awesome to behold, but the magnificent beauty and power of the pristine Soul is beyond the expression of mere words. Votes: 1
There can be no law of nature, no science,No aberrant infliction of human willThat unchained the soul cannot conquer,Simply sweep away, should it chose to. Votes: 1
The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant cold fruits that Maerad could simply pick out of the sky. Votes: 1
Well, one wearies of the Public Gardens: one wants a vacationWhere trees and clouds and animals pay no notice;Away from the labeled elms, the tame tea-roses Votes: 1
Nothing is as unique as sex in nature; it is full of enjoyment, pleasure and happiness. There is no discrimination, no exclusion, no inequality and no racism. Votes: 1
By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. Votes: 1
Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given. Votes: 1
Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds. Votes: 1
The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command. Votes: 1
Six Mudras are to be practised daily for 10 minutes.They are Jnana,Prithvi,Apana,Prana,Dhyana and ShoonyaVayu-by which health is enhanced and diseases can be prevented. Votes: 1
How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing. Votes: 1
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things. Votes: 1
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurretet mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix. (Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back,Victorious over your ignorant confident scorn.) Votes: 1
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace. Votes: 1
We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul Votes: 1
Even the ocean waves take their hellos to the people all the time. I should take my hellos down to the beach and sell waves to the tourists. Votes: 1
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm! Votes: 1
When we walked the mowed margins of the field in the evenings, a school of black crickets sprang ahead of us like dolphins in front of a ship. Votes: 1
Our love went from fly to flower to butterfly, and it was meant to beautifully flutter, not sit still on a shelf like a trophy to be collected. Votes: 1
For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us. Votes: 1
Why?"He stopped pacing and looked at her as if she'd just asked him to count every leaf on every tree in the Old Place. "Because... you're you. Votes: 1
We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that. Votes: 1
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. Votes: 1
If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive. Votes: 1
she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her. Votes: 1
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Votes: 1
No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them. Votes: 1
For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart. Votes: 1
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel. Votes: 1
Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory. Votes: 1
But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them. Votes: 1
I hear he liked flowers pretty well.""Yes," said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him."--"Out, Brief Candle Votes: 1
The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain. Votes: 1
I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow. Votes: 1
Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunters acquire it from geese, and some coffee pots from hunters. Votes: 1
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world. Votes: 1
Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run... Votes: 1
The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little goodevidence. Votes: 1
Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited. Votes: 1
When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty. Votes: 1
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Votes: 1
There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or acknowledge this relatedness, it still exists. Votes: 1
Nature takes the decision first, man agrees, reconciles, modifies, refutes, contradicts etc., subsequently. It means the application of reason, the discretionary power of a man, only happens afterwards! Votes: 1
Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world. Votes: 1
Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour. Votes: 1
A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls. Votes: 1
Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period. Votes: 1
I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful. Votes: 1
One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver. Votes: 1
They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree. Votes: 1
Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet. Votes: 1
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. Votes: 1
Nature hides a man many things; but the man hides the nature itself. Nature decides when to show a man what; man decides what to show the society how. Votes: 1
We feel very happy in nature but we must be very sure that nature also feels very happy when we are there! Happiness must be mutual! Treat nature well! Votes: 1
The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature. Votes: 1
All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered. Votes: 1
Power...Born out of nature, Coveted by men; Wars rage on, And victors are crowned. But true power can never be lost or won. True power comes from within. Votes: 1
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves. Votes: 1
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. Votes: 1
Were the earth smooth, our brains would be smooth as well; we would wake, blink, walk two steps to get the whole picture, and lapse into a dreamless sleep. Votes: 1
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit. Votes: 1
And yet we couldn't leave--it was if the rocks were holding us there. I mean, they were only rocks. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good. Votes: 1
Some prefer the wildness. Some the calm. There's enough of both in the world for everyone to have their choice. And enough time for any to change their mind. Votes: 1
Why so? one would think at such a time you would most exult in your privilege of being able to imitate the various brilliant and delightful touches of nature. Votes: 1
My body was a buzzing antenna into which radio waves flooded from the entire cosmos. I was the living switchboard of the universe. My skull was a magnetized globe. Votes: 1
The muffled syllables that Nature speaksFill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,She makes a sweeter music than is heard. Votes: 1
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. Votes: 1
Her chest full of crisp air and inspiration, her feet atop a forgettable mountain where the stars make you feel insignificant and important all at once. And she sang. Votes: 1
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. Votes: 1
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place. Votes: 1
Come see the cherry trees of a water constellationand the round key of the rapid universe,come touch the fire of instantaneous blue,come before its petals are consumed. Votes: 1
Sometimes I Wonder Where Those Spirits Go After Departing From The Bodies, Then I Realize, They Are All Around Us, In The Nature, Full of Spirits In Different Forms.... Votes: 1
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. Votes: 1
For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals. Votes: 1
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice. Votes: 1
It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth. Votes: 1
The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias. Votes: 1
Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful. Votes: 1
There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature! Votes: 1
Bukan dari sudah berapa banyak dan jauh suatu tempat yang telah kau kunjungi, tetapi hakikatnya adalah seberapa banyak dan jauh dirimu mengambil kesan dan pelajaran dari suatu tempat tersebut. Votes: 1
When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently. Votes: 1
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world. Votes: 1
The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it. Votes: 1
Waking up each morning is not a right but a privilege while saying thank you for the day is not just a right to God but a command in motion. Votes: 1
Our love was bornoutside the walls,in the wind,in the night,in the earth,and that's why the clay and the flower,the mud and the rootsknow your name. Votes: 1
To eat or be eaten, to escape or be taken...a matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice. Votes: 1
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboatcomes slowly out and then goes back is truly worthall the years of sorrow that are to come. Votes: 1
The first and last lesson of religion is, 'The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.' It puts an affront upon nature. Votes: 1
Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Votes: 1
Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair. Votes: 1
There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature! Votes: 1
Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - "What is the meaning of the void?" The answer was perfect silence, so I knew. Votes: 1
Doing good for others should not be a pre-calculated motive driven by an agenda for future gains; it should be a natural response out of the basic need at hand. Votes: 1
May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of to turn up the bowels of the earth~? Votes: 1
The winds have a force so terrific as to eclipse anything previously known in the world. We have found the kingdom of blizzards. We have come to an accursed land. Votes: 1
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. Votes: 1
O lead me onward to the loneliest shade, The darkest place that quiet ever made, Where kingcups grow most beauteous to behold And shut up green and open into gold. Votes: 1
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string. Votes: 1
Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there. Votes: 1
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. Votes: 1
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.. Votes: 1
Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty! Votes: 1
It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course. Votes: 1
The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress. Votes: 1
Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water. Votes: 1
Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite. Votes: 1
Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension. Votes: 1
Life is calling you. The other life. The analogue life. The real. Nature is calling you. And people too. Wondrous royal souls are waiting to meet, appreciate and experience you. Votes: 1
Quiet Days, they look at you, and you will become one with the holy river - nature forms a symbiotic relationship - absolute infinity, truly found, in harmonious caressing arms. Votes: 1
There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order. Votes: 1
The resurrection of the morning.The mystery of the night.The hummingbird's wings.The excitement of thunder.The rainbow in the waterfall.Wild mustard, that rough blaze of the fields. Votes: 1
Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things Votes: 1
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort. Votes: 1
Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature. Votes: 1
The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets. Votes: 1
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. Votes: 1
We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery. Votes: 1
I am just like you,Destined to play my part.And leave,In the nature of my departure at least,Some kind of sweet message behindIn the fathomless pattern I make. Votes: 1
There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go~? Votes: 1
Life (like love) is forgiving and hopeful and, like a bold flower pushing out from the narrow crevice in a rock, will take any gap we allow. However small or large. Votes: 1
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. Votes: 1
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. Votes: 1
To watch the dawn emerge from the night undoubtedly gives a heavenly feeling! The fresh sun rays entwine with the dark horizon and peep out of the creek with tranquil grin. Votes: 1
Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks. Votes: 1
I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose. Votes: 1
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Votes: 1
There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder. Votes: 1
The recognition of oneself as a part of nature, and reliance on natural things, are disappearing for hundreds of millions of people who do not know that anything is being lost. Votes: 1
To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself. Votes: 1
In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be;Where all the noises, that on peace intrude,Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee,Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude. Votes: 1
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts. Votes: 1
Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper. Votes: 1
True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature. Votes: 1
You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you. Votes: 1
I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks. Votes: 1
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand. Votes: 1
Our wings serve as flippers that carry us across the ocean; not in the sky!Why, us penguins have so much fun time in the water, we don't even want to fly! Votes: 1
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Votes: 1
...a hazy yellow moon was climbing along the curve of the old basilica on the hill. As it rose, it seemed to be gathering the silence up around it like a net. Votes: 1
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. Votes: 1
He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck. Votes: 1
I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony. Votes: 1
How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint~? Votes: 1
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for... Votes: 1
One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it. Votes: 1
Every day the sun is rising for you.Every morning birds are singing for you. In the garden, flowers are blooming for you. Every river is flowing with life just for you. Votes: 1
Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle~? Votes: 1
There is a special charm to journeys undertaken before daybreak in hot lands: the air is soft and cool and the coming of dawn reveals a landscape fresh from the night dew. Votes: 1
The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh. Votes: 1
There is no symbolism to these fish, as Hemingway wrote. A cabezon is just a cabezon; a garibaldi, a garibaldi. But what wonderful stories they tell us about life in the ocean! Votes: 1
Into adulthood through which everyone is always in a different way. Do not feel left out because of it. So, do not worry about it. Since everyone has experienced the same thing. Votes: 1
As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams from the deep singing mind of the earth. Votes: 1
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Votes: 1
It was very sad under the trees. Although spring was well advanced, in the deep shade there was nothing but death-rotten leaves, gray and white fungi, and over everything a funeral hush. Votes: 1
The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization. Votes: 1
This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance. Votes: 1
Nature is such as to give rise to conscious beings with minds; and it is such as to be comprehensible to such beings. Ultimately therefore such beings should be comprehensible to themselves. Votes: 1
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon. It never makes an appearance itself, but is a visible reflection in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind. It is as various as nature herself. Votes: 1
Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers were quick explosive orgasms, like making love in the shower. Votes: 1
What a forced lifestyle our technology, our inventions imposed on our lives when we tried to live synonymously with computers; when we stepped inside their world, we left the natural one behind. Votes: 1
A breeze blew softly, slightly rippling the water as it carried the heady scents of late Carolina springtime through the air. Honeysuckle. Jasmine. Ripe, pungent river mud. Ah, the world felt right. Votes: 1
No one is an outside observer of nature,We're defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment -- by our ecology. And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical. Votes: 1
Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things. Votes: 1
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite~? Votes: 1
I barely took a moment to appreciate nature. Come to think of it, theonly time I did it was when I was so upset I wanted to commit suicide in theHuang Pu river. Votes: 1
He gets away with it because he's strong.''This is the story of mankind.''I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.''Yes. But then I read the newspaper. Votes: 1
Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn't be so to life. Votes: 1
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective. Votes: 1
It was made clear to me that Music is related to everything, especially nature and language, but in order to speak it naturally, I had to first make myself a part of it. Votes: 1
We have a calling: a need to be close to Nature, where she may cleanse our souls and wash away the stresses of yesterday. It is emotional recompense for the cost of living. Votes: 1
After your visits, I twisted my blinds shut every night. I locked out the stars and I never saw lightning again. Each night, I simply turned out the lights and went to bed. Votes: 1
Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it. Votes: 1
To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me. Votes: 1
Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive. Votes: 1
Soulful healing asks, while you are healing your body with herbs from Earth, that you look for the meaning in what is happening within your body as it relates to your whole being. Votes: 1
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is. Votes: 1
Do you believe in God, Martin?'And he answered, 'Yes, because of His trees. Don't you?''I'm not sure...''Oh, my poor, blind Stephen! Look again, go on looking until you do believe. Votes: 1
Your whispers are gentle echoes that sway ardent winds of harmony and in the symphony of life each word is wrapped in rhapsody... Dance with me within the wind... Let me love You... Votes: 1
The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from one angle, during a portion of their life, can adopt new ideas only with difficulty. Votes: 1
I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine. Votes: 1
Linnaeus had it constantly in mind: 'The closer we get to know the creatures around us, the clearer is the understanding we obtain of the chain of nature, and its harmony and system'. Votes: 1
The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men. Votes: 1
Sky is grey, vegetation is plastic, and mankind is pale, for we have spent our days conceiving unnecessary tools for our arousal, and so we hide the nakedness of nature with brutal machinnes. Votes: 1
He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead. Votes: 1
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive. Votes: 1
We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. Votes: 1
...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance. Votes: 1
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means. Votes: 1
On re-entering cultivated lands, the agitation, perplexity, and turmoil of civilization oppressed and suffocated us; the air seemed to fail us, and we felt every moment as if about to die of asphyxia. Votes: 1
[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing. Votes: 1
And hearing him, Stephen found herself thinking that all men had something simple about them; something that took pleasure in the things that were blameless, that longed, as it were, to contact Nature. Votes: 1
These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar. Votes: 1
It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God Votes: 1
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. Votes: 1
All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him. Votes: 1
It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again. Votes: 1
As we balance and become more and more identified with our spiritual nature, and the ego returns to its designated place, we again are led by the Spirit, but now in a conscious way. Votes: 1
See the bigger picture of yours and refuse the passport size creature that people think you are! Your nature is large; go for it. Feel free to wake up and print your bigger picture! Votes: 1
I don't even know what my natural color is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables Votes: 1
To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-NoCome play with me;Why should you runThrough the shaking treeAs though I'd a gunTo strike you dead?When all I would doIs to scratch your headAnd let you go. Votes: 1
Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences. Votes: 1
But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each other, fell on her ear, her eyes sought the sky, and she heard a voice saying, "Majella! Votes: 1
The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky. Votes: 1
Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning to him, though I knew. "Everything," he said. And it was true. Votes: 1
The waters of the stream played the part of the orchestra, and the sunlight provided the dancers. Every now and then a crescendo of wind highlighted the symphony in the clearing by the creek. Votes: 1
No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel like some accident of nature but rather something that was purposefully unleashed on the world. Votes: 1
Under the greenwood tree,Who loves to lie with meAnd tune his merry note,Unto the sweet bird's throat;Come hither, come hither, come hither.Here shall he seeNo enemyBut winter and rough weather. Votes: 1
There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation. Votes: 1
It is with eight lengthy legs we use to catch food, balance and knit a beautiful silk bed,but as babies we had lost our bones and skin, and hence our legs we had shed. Votes: 1
I am a single note, a tone that peals in the wind. I am in the magic of the moment and then he returns, flowing toward me around the thick immense bark of the Sequoia. Votes: 1
One day is not enough to green our earth. Planting caring and love is also expecting our earth from us. Do it, It will heal not only the land but also your body and mind. Votes: 1
The river is such a tranquil place, a place to sit and think of romance and the beauty of nature, to enjoy the elegance of swans and the chance of a glimpse of a kingfisher. Votes: 1
I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory. Votes: 1
Of course I am thinking the Lord was once young and will never in fact be old.And who else could this be, who goes off down the green path,Carrying his sandals, and singing~? Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
It was morning distilled, the sun rising on a quiet world, a mute witness. To Liz, it was both the oldest miraculous event, and the newest. This one belonged to her, and she to it. Votes: 1
I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so. Votes: 1
This is God's beauty!The Elegant nature of Esther,The Meek nature of Moses,The Pius nature of Paul,The Passionate nature of Peter,The Just nature of Jesus and thenThe wise nature of you! Votes: 1
Daffy bent down suddenly, and picked a small startled white flower. "Anemone," he said, handing it over; he made her repeat the word until she had it right. "Find me a silk to match that. Votes: 1
Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean...[John Muir to Samuel Hall Young] Votes: 1
The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows. Votes: 1
See men for miles around give nature what she needs,rivers and rivers and rivers of it. You exhale with perfecthappiness. Nature turned you down in high school. Now you can come in her eye. Votes: 1
Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?"I said nothing."What colour's a blackbird?" she said."Black""Typical! Votes: 1
...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope. Votes: 1
The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist. Votes: 1
There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. Votes: 1
As people we narrowly get by with our lives each day, energy from our soft, delicate actions appearing like cherry blossoms, only once, and once for a short while. Eventually petals fall to the ground. Votes: 1
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves. Votes: 1
Time is not just behind; it's after and now. To create more reality is to create more time and to do that is to create a structure and then to take it to the next Level. Votes: 1
First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and they came back to life, and flew up and then Agaat SMILED! Votes: 1
The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in meOlder and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. Votes: 1
There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die. Votes: 1
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me Votes: 1
From when she was a baby, Tom has taught the girl to respect, but not fear, the forces of nature- the lightning that might strike the light tower on Janus, the oceans that batter the island. Votes: 1
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... The land is one organism. Votes: 1
To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest. Votes: 1
And there were carved hearts in the trunks of trees with the initials of couples who felt there was no more romantic thing they could do to celebrate their love than scar the local plant life Votes: 1
Here for example the beautiful silver mirror of a river swells, a boy falls in, the water ripples sweetly around his locks, he sinks - and after a short while the silver mirror swells as before. Votes: 1
My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was "Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in." p264 Votes: 1
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer Votes: 1
Only when you go beyond Mind, will you be able to respect the energy that inhabits us; until then you will either exploit others with your energy or will deplete your energy, leading a purposeless life! Votes: 1
Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable. Votes: 1
Hill tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun, And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run; Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there. Votes: 1
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof. Votes: 1
Nature does not ask your permission, she has nothing to do with your wishes, and whether you like her laws or dislike them, you are bound to accept her as she is, and consequently all her conclusions. Votes: 1
I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right. Votes: 1
The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are like wooden islands of freedom, free from petty concerns and the laws of the land. Votes: 1
The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't. Votes: 1
If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects share. Votes: 1
For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home Votes: 1
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news Votes: 1
The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer. Votes: 1
The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and animals never do anything silly like kill each other or fall in love or grow up. Votes: 1
Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'. Votes: 1
Give Nature a vacuum and she will try to fill it. Give her localized pressure and she will try to disperse it. She is forever seeking a balance she can never achieve, never happy with what she's got. Votes: 1
I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others. Votes: 1
The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Votes: 1
And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs. Votes: 1
In the front yard lives the oldest thing around, a white oakThat I used to say is my love for the world, That I now would just call love as it is.Belonging to nobody, no metaphor, the very. Votes: 1
It was Red Rock Canyon. One of the most beautiful places in Waterton... in the Rockies, for that matter. And it was there, waiting for him to find it. As long as he was willing to look for it. Votes: 1
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Votes: 1
I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings. Votes: 1
We've tried to live in balance with nature long enough. This time nature went too far. As soon as you and your fiance are safely out of here, I'm calling in an air strike to napalm this whole forest. Votes: 1
I wish the night would end,I wish the day'd begin,I wish it would rain or snow,or the wind would blow,or the grass would grow,I wish I had yesterday,I wish there were games to play... Votes: 1
Saul was going to kill Anansi.They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son. Votes: 1
The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared. Votes: 1
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die. Votes: 1
Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human - that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty to be resourceful, to be attentive to the world we live in. Votes: 1