A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
Nature Quotes
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.
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.
