Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, (Nature) does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
Nature Quotes
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
The concept of “nature” is itself, so to speak, artificial. Are Ring-Dings elf food? Is Wal-Mart part of the spirit world? For people who live in what we would call “the state of nature” – for Yaguas, Orejons, riberenos, me when I’m fishing in Michigan – nature is nothing in particular. It’s meat locker, wastepaper […]
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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.
Unto this wood I came As to a nest; Dreaming that sylvan peace Offered the harrowed ease- Nature a soft release From men’s unrest.
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered.
Why is nature so nearly symmetrical? No one has any idea why. The only thing we might suggest is something like this: There is a gate in Japan, a gate in Neiko, which is sometimes called by the Japanese the most beautiful gate in all Japan; it was built in a time when there was […]
