What is it to be admitted to a museum, to see a myriad of particular things, compared with being shown some star’s surface, some hard matter in its home! I stand in awe of my body, this matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me. I fear not spirits, ghosts, of […]
Nature Quotes
(W)e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity… it is part of nature.
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.
