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Nature Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
- Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the…
- Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living…
- Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I…
- The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
- We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without…
- Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.
- 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…
- Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.
- It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that…
- In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new…
- 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…
- An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.
- If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
- If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
- The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and…
- When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god…
- Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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