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Nature Quotes by John Burroughs
- I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
- Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a…
- The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the…
- I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt…
- In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.
- Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is…
- Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails…
- Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks…
- To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is…
- The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.
- The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it…
- How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us…
- The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
- I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality…
- When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on…
- One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not…
- The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and…
- The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd…
- The place to observe nature is where you are.
- Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is…
- If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature....
- To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...…
- I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
- Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and…
- If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at…
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