The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination nature is imagination itself.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
To be happy we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
It is cruel you know that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge more than money more than honor to the persons who possess it.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams it will transcend them.
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
I've been very competitive by nature from a young age whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else or always wanting to be the first one in line.
For a successful technology reality must take precedence over public relations for Nature cannot be fooled.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
The stars shall fade away the sun himself Grow dim with age and nature sink in years But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth Unhurt amidst the wars of elements The wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure a cooler blue the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Come forth into the light of things let nature be your teacher.
Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
The system of nature of which man is a part tends to be self-balancing self-adjusting self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
The attention of a traveller should be particularly turned in the first place to the various works of Nature to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
I can find God in nature in animals in birds and the environment.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
Everything that slows us down and forces patience everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science environmental management government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole the keyhole of nature trying to know what's going on.