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Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.Collection: Nature
The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.Collection: Nature
Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.Collection: Nature
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.Collection: Nature
To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.Collection: Nature
Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.Collection: Nature
If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for.Collection: Nature
"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."Collection: Nature
There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.Collection: Nature
There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.Collection: Nature
I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.Collection: Nature
He who plants a tree is a servant of God.Collection: Nature
Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.Collection: Nature
We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.Collection: Nature
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.Collection: Nature
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.Collection: Nature
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.Collection: Nature
Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.Collection: Nature
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.Collection: Nature
The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.Collection: Nature
We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.Collection: Nature
In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?Collection: Nature
For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.Collection: Nature
Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of [Passenger] pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring?Collection: Nature
Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.Collection: Nature
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.Collection: Nature
Men and women in all parts of the world have a desperate need to take time from their demanding routines of everyday life and to quietly observe God's miracles taking place all around them. Think of what would happen if all of us took time to look carefully at the wonders of nature that surround us and devoted ourselves to learning more about this world that God created for us!Collection: Nature
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.Collection: Nature
All nature is the temple; earth the altar.Collection: Nature
Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.Collection: Nature
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.Collection: Nature
They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woodsCollection: Nature
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard them immediately on this account. For every hypothesis which once was sound was useful for thinking of previous phenomena in the proper interrelations and for keeping them in context. We ought to set down contradictory experiences separately, until enough have accumulated to make building a new structure worthwhile.Collection: Nature
The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.Collection: Nature
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.Collection: Nature
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.Collection: Nature
Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.Collection: Nature
She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.Collection: Nature
Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.Collection: Nature
Nature is nobody's ally.Collection: Nature
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.Collection: Nature
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.Collection: Nature
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.Collection: Nature
Nature abhors a moron.Collection: Nature
In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.Collection: Nature
If not against us, nature is not for us.Collection: Nature
We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.Collection: Nature
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.Collection: Nature
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.Collection: Nature