Nature Quotes - Page 5

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.

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

I'm an advocate of human nature.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.