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Nature Quotes by Walt Whitman
- The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you…
- This is what you should do; love the Earth and sun and the animals...
- Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.
- I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And…
- Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then…
- After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently…
- Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the…
- A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
- Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
- I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
- Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
- You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or…
- A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what…
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