Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.
Nature Quotes
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who “love Nature” while deploring the “artificialities” with which “Man has spoiled ‘Nature.'” The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of “Nature” – but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper […]
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
Man is demolishing nature… We are killing things that keep us alive.
The positive ideal that is proposed is Nature. That is, wild nature: those aspects of the functioning of the Earth and its living things that are independent of human management and free of human interference and control.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Till o’er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.
It is one of the first days of Spring, and I sit once more in the old garden where I hear no faintest echo of the obscene rumbling of London streets which are yet so little away. Here the only movement I am conscious of is that of the trees shooting forth their first sprays […]
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.
