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Nature Quotes by Edwin Way Teale
- How many beautiful trees gave their lives that today's scandal should, without delay, reach a million readers.
- If man can take care of man, nature can take care of the rest.
- Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you,…
- In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
- For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.
- Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have…
- For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
- The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
- Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives,…
- If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of…
- For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle