We need some tonic of wildness – to wade somewhere in marshes where the bittern and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe… At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be […]
Nature Quotes
The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature.
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.
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 […]
(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.
