There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
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Quotes tagged ‘Nature’
I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read thi…
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the repor…
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
Man is never perfect, nor contented.
We cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
The Earth does not want new continents, but new men.
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed
The sea is not surer of the shore, or the shore of the sea, then he is of the fruition of his love, and of all perfection and beauty.
Night is beautiful when you are happy—comforting when you are in grief—terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples’ character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if fo…
Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.
I looked up at the sky; the pure, wonderful stars were still there, burning.
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.
Nature holds everything. As you start to live in it and observe it and experience the seasons, it reveals a lot that inspires every part of life.
I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.
There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.