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.
Nature Quotes
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.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
The only straight line in Nature that I remember is the spider swinging down from a twig.
In our days those who love Nature are accused of being romantic.
First I shall make some experiments before I proceed further, because my intention is to consult experience first and then by reasoning show why such experiment is bound to work in such a way. And this is the true rule by which those who analyze natural effects must proceed; and although nature begins with the […]
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
When a man does a piece of work which is admired by all we say that it is wonderful; but when we see the changes of day and night, the sun, the moon, and the stars in the sky, and the changing seasons upon the earth, with their ripening fruits, anyone must realize that it […]
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.
