Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous – indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
Nature Quotes
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Even the nature-worship which Pagans have felt, even the nature-love which Pantheists have felt, ultimately depends as much on some implied purpose and positive good in things, as does the direct thanksgiving which Christians have felt. Indeed Nature is at best merely a female name we give to Providence when we are not treating it […]
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
They say there is a tune which is forbidden to be played in the European armies because it makes the Swiss desert, since it reminds them so forcibly of their hills and home. I have heard many Swiss tunes played in college. Balancing between getting and not getting a hard lesson, a breath of fragrant […]
I long for scenes, where man hath never trod, a place where woman never smiled or wept – there to abide with my creator, God, and sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, untroubling, and untroubled where I lie, the grass below – above, the vaulted sky.
Nature is what we know – Yet have not art to say – So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.
