N Quotes
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“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
Source: Emily Dickinson: lives of a poet
“Nature is a home enough for all to share, if all our hearts are large enough to care.”
“Nature is a language - can't you read?”
“Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.”
“Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.”
“Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.”
Source: Georges Braque
“Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness.”
“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
Source: Essays
“Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase.”
“Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.”
“Nature is a petrified magic city.”
“Nature is a place of constant competition between individuals in a species, and between one species and another. In this broken world, animals aren't able to rise above violence. But people have the ability to forsake it. People should. People must. But that is our work, Quinn. Not nature's and not God's.”
“Nature is a porno. Deal with it.”
“Nature is a really big part of our lives.”
“Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Nature is a series of murders.”
“Nature is a source of strength.”
“Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.”
“Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.”
Source: The Flowers of Evil
“Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead and discarded, as though intuitively aware that there is nothing new under the sun. Throughout the physical world, from the cosmic to the subatomic, the same refrain resounds. Conservation: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.”
Source: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
“Nature is a thought.
Nature is a desire.
Nature is an expression.
Nature is an experience.
Nature is reality.
Nature is light.
Nature is sound.
Nature is movement.
Nature is energy.
Nature is power.
Nature is the sky.
Nature is the stars.
Nature is the planets.
Nature is the world.
Nature is the universe.
Nature is a man.
Nature is a woman.
Nature is a child.
Nature is an elder.
Nature is mankind.”
“Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.”
“Nature is a tonic that can neither be packaged nor bottled... It eases the mind and soothes the senses.”
“Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.”
“Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable.”
Source: Sharing the world
“Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simply the key by which myriads of these signs, hitherto indecipherable, can be unlocked and perused, and thus a new province added to the poetical domain.”
“Nature is a volume of which God is the author.”
“Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady MIND in the long run, and to take her revenge too transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portait of Yesterday.”
Source: Opus Maximum
“Nature is a well-tuned machine that requires balance and harmony between all of its connected parts. The imbalance of any constitute element within its wider framework could disrupt the ecology of the whole unit of which it is part. Nature does not think; it performs only in accordance with its programming.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.”
“Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.”
“Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?”
“Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it.”
“Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.”
“Nature is all abundant...Nature suggests hope, joy, abundance, belief, regeneration, allowance, sharing, love, beauty and acceptance.”
Source: Lessons from My Garden
“Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.”
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
“Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.”
“Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.”
Source: Cold comfort farm
“Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.”
Source: The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
“Nature is always behind the age”
Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
“Nature is always hinting at us.”
“Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.”
“Nature is always inviting you to see her beauty and power. She is attracting you with her dance, song, and love.”
“Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.”
Source: Our Corner
“Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.”
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.”
Source: Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth
“Nature is always talking to you, smiling to you, and singing to you. To understand, you just have to be open to listen with your heart and soul.”
“Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.”
Source: It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays
“Nature is always wise in every part.”