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Nature Quotes by Henry Beston
- The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer…
- Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.
- When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone,…
- If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything…
- As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.
- Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.
- Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks…
- Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.
- We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in…
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