Who trusted God was love indeed, And love Creations final lawà Tho Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
Nature Quotes
How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature – most of them in fact!
Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. […]
Thou canst not stir a flower, without troubling of a star.
Men argue, nature acts.
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, To the silent wilderness.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Nature has always had more power than education.
Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
The concept of “nature” is itself, so to speak, artificial. Are Ring-Dings elf food? Is Wal-Mart part of the spirit world? For people who live in what we would call “the state of nature” – for Yaguas, Orejons, riberenos, me when I’m fishing in Michigan – nature is nothing in particular. It’s meat locker, wastepaper […]
