A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there that of the pulse, the heart beat.
Nature Quotes (5062 Quotes)
The rain this weekend will help us out a lot. It is going take the high danger down until we get some cover on the trees.
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.
My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it... The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
It is hard not to see the theological overtones in the movie... Beauty, goodness, love and devotion are all part of nature, built into the DNA of the universe.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
Anywhere with a decent stand of trees can be great, and we still actually have open fields in Northwest Arkansas, so you have a good assortment of habitat, which means a good assortment of birds.
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly.
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Our sense is that the commission supports reform of the intelligence community, but we have come to no judgment about the nature of reform that we will recommend.
O Nanak, the Guru is the tree of contentment, with flowers of faith, and fruits of spiritual wisdom. Watered with the Lord's Love, it remains forever green through the karma of good deeds and meditation, it ripens.
After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets... and a partridge in a pear tree, I have found what I believe are the best answers this planet has to offer about living a healthy, happy, and balanced life.
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.
If the grocery tax goes down, something else has to go up. That's just the nature of society.
A master was explaining the nature of Tao to one of his novices. 'The Tao is embodied in all software regardless of how insignificant,' said the master. 'Is Tao in a hand-held calculator' asked the novice. 'It is,' came the reply. 'Is the Tao in a video game' continued the novice. 'It is even in a video game,' said the master. 'And is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer' The master coughed and shifted his position slightly. 'The lesson is over for today,' he said.
Our findings show that too many workers are not looking at their 401(k) savings as long-term in nature, but are instead using termination of employment as an opportunity to spend this money.
Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade Whereer you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
Sometimes we're not aware of things, The wind chimes in a tree that sings, The first snowfall that casts a spell, We plod along our tired way, Not seeing beauty in each day, Not recognizing God at all, In everything, both great and small. Then suddenly He wakes us from A long sleep of ignoring Him, He nudges us with trials of pain, So that we see His love again. Renewed once more we are aware Of his great power everywhere - Then all the world is new and bright - We see God in a different light.
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Trees are very emotional. I try not to say, 'Palms are bad.' . . . But when you walk down a street and it has nice shade, you feel calmer.
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.
Outward beauty is not enough to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature.
With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.
The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the publics general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. It has evolved into an entity that tends to function as a public relations agency for wealthy and powerful multinational corporations, members of Congress, the current Presidential Administration including the administrations that preceded it. The news media is being utilized as a political tool of suppression and propaganda by those in power, and propaganda is psychological in nature. Full of half-truths and utter misinformation, its an arrogant and very commercial strategy that is implemented because it appeals to emotions, fear being the main one relentless talk of national security, personal and community safety, can trigger childhood insecurities and indoctrinated views of authority.
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
It's a different kind of beauty. It's nice to go after it snows and you can see the snow on the trees. It's very quiet.
Hospitals reported treating three patients with traumatic storm-related injuries. One man's wrist was nearly severed when a shutter fell on it. An off-duty Broward County Sheriff's Office road-patrol deputy was critically injured when a tree fell on of his personal car in Miramar. It comes closer to home when it's part of our own Broward Sheriff's Office family, ... This is why we tell people to stay home.
We've always been a team which, by it's very nature, never tries to draw. I prefer another style, our style, which is to always try to win.
What we see this season is there are several days in between rains and enough time for it to stay dry and warm and windy. There's nowhere for the pollen to go, so it just stays in the air, on the trees and you can actually see it building up.
Washington State Democrat Jay Inslee brought an enlarged photo of the bald eagle to the House floor. What is a fish without a river What is a bird without a tree to nest in, ... This isn't modernization of the act. It's euthanasia of the act.
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.
Man is nature's sole mistake.
I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.
The nature of the food determines the nature of one' s thoughts,feelings and actions.
It's all about the nature of the sport. Baseball doesn't make money in college. There might be two or three baseball programs that break even.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
The most insignificant insects and reptiles are of much more consequence, and have much more influence in the economy of nature, than the incurious are aware of and are mighty in their effect, from their minuteness, which renders them less an object of attention and from their numbers and fecundity.