Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity… it is part of nature.
Nature Quotes
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America; neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in mythology than in any history […]
I think I could turn and live with the animals. They are so placid and self-contained. They do not sweat and whine about their condition… Not one is dissatisfied. Not one is demented with the mania of owning things… Not one is disrespectful or unhappy over the world.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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.
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.
