I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk.
Nature Quotes
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
So, naturalists observe, a flea – Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite’em; And so proceed ad infinitum.
A few weeks after I came to the woods, for an hour I doubted whether the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life. To be alone was somewhat unpleasant. But in the midst of the gentle rain, while these thoughts prevailed, I was suddenly sensible of such sweet and […]
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all.
The man who feels most exquisitely the joy of contact with what is perfect in art and nature is the man who from the width and power of his thought hides the greatest number of Satanic or barbarous sympathies. His opposite is the narrow churchman or reformer who knows no ecstasy and is shocked chiefly […]
He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.
Nature is always behind the age.
The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth.
