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Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.Collection: Nature
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.Collection: Nature
Nature and wisdom always say the same.Collection: Nature
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.Collection: Nature
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.Collection: Nature
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.Collection: Nature
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.Collection: Nature
If only we know, boss, what the stones and rain and flowers say. Maybe they call-call us-and we don't hear them. When will people's ears open, boss? When shall we have our eyes open to see? When shall we open our arms to embrace everything-stones, rain, flowers, and people? What do you think about that, boss? And what do your books have to say about that?Collection: Nature
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.Collection: Nature
The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.Collection: Nature
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.Collection: Nature
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.Collection: Nature
The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.Collection: Nature
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.Collection: Nature
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.Collection: Nature
The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.Collection: Nature
My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.Collection: Nature
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to those of the bed.Collection: Nature
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe.Collection: Nature
I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.Collection: Nature
I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.Collection: Nature
Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.Collection: Nature
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.Collection: Nature
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery.Collection: Nature
For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.Collection: Nature
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.Collection: Nature
Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.Collection: Nature
With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus from the land makes me unspeakably sad. I think of the children who will never know, intuitively, that a flower is a plant's way of making love, or what silence sounds like, or that trees breathe out what we breathe in.Collection: Nature
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch with nature more than science. ... Too few natural areas remain; both by intent and by indifference we have insulated ourselves from the wilderness that produced us.Collection: Nature
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changedCollection: Nature
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.Collection: Nature
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything.Collection: Nature
In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.Collection: Nature
In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.Collection: Nature
If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing.Collection: Nature
I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.Collection: Nature
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.Collection: Nature
It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.Collection: Nature
Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up the furniture to keep warm.Collection: Nature
No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.Collection: Nature
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.Collection: Nature
I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.Collection: Nature
A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.Collection: Nature
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.Collection: Nature
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.Collection: Nature
We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.Collection: Nature
In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.Collection: Nature
If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.Collection: Nature