A forest that has sheltered you, you should not call a patch of scrub.
Nature Quotes
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are […]
The day has eyes, the night has ears.
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
There is only one nature – the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. (Job 12:8)
If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about a supernatural influence. But until such time as nature becomes hopelessly unintelligible and unpredictable, we need look no further than nature itself for explanations.
June, July, and August, the tortoise eggs are hatching a few inches beneath the surface in sandy fields. You tell of active labors, of works of art, and wars the past summer; meanwhile the tortoise eggs underlie this turmoil. What events have transpired on the lit and airy surface three inches above them!… Perhaps you […]
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
