N Quotes
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“Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.”
Source: Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964
“Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems like molecules within larger systems like cells, which in turn are nested in systems called organs, organisms, ecosystems. We grew from ancient one-celled ancestors. Nature likes mergers: we contain multitudes of other life forms within us. We stand at the crest of four billion years, bacteria molded into wondrous form, burning with a slow fire and about to take the next step.”
Source: Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things
“Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.”
Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
“Nature is full for us of seeming inconsistencies and glad surprises.”
“Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.”
“Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.”
Source: Representative men. Society and solitude
“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.”
Source: Notebooks
“Nature is full of teeth
that come in one by one, then
decay,
fall out.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.”
Source: Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder: Selections from the Tatler. Selections from the Spectator [no.5-150
“Nature is fun to study, but style is everything.”
“Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.”
Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
“Nature is God!
It is my foolishness, arrogance or anger that pushes me to think or say that I can punish somebody.
It is you Nature (God) who has the power to punish. I am only a mere human being whose existence is to work hard in a righteous manner.
Please forgive me and give me strength, intellect and knowledge.”
“Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times... If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.”
“Nature is God's greatest evangelist.”
“Nature is God's Old Testament.”
“Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.”
Source: The Great House of God
“Nature is God's. Art is man's instrument.”
Source: Prolusions; or, Select pieces of antient poetry,--compil'd with great care from their several originals: and offer'd to the publick as specimens of the integrity that should be found in the editions of worthy authors, in three parts ... with a preface ...
“Nature is good for all of us. When we're exposed to trees and other natural settings - even within the city, it fosters creativity.”
“Nature is great at hedging. All kinds of natural disasters can hit a forest - from hurricanes to heat waves to floods to freezing temperatures - and yet the forest can remain intact and continue to thrive year after year and decade after decade. At Mayflower-Plymouth we aim to hedge our funds the way nature hedges - by cultivating resilience through systems design.”
“Nature is great at hedging investments. Nature doesn’t hedge by betting for and against the same things. Nature hedges by cultivating resilience.”
“Nature is harmony in discord.”
“Nature is harsh. It doesn’t give crowns to those who create the best but to the ones who can destroy the most. Beavers can build dams as much as they want, but bears will always rule the forest.”
Source: Untold Stories of the Little Prince
“Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.”
Source: The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry
“Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.”
Source: Three plays
“Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.”
“Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.”
“Nature is in the process of shutting down corrupt corporations and their government minions.”
“Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but I cannot bear to hear people using it to justify what common sense must disavow. Is not Nature modifed by art in many things? Was it not designed to be so? And is it not happy for human society that it is so? Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of Nature?”
“Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”
“Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.”
“Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.”
“Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.”
Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962
“Nature is interested in only two things—to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man. So we have varieties of religious experience. You are not satisfied with your own religious teachings or games; so you bring in others from India, Asia or China. They become interesting because they are something new. You pick up a new language and try to speak it and use it to feel more important. But basically, it is the same thing.”
Source: No Way Out: Dialogues with Krishnamurti
“Nature is interested in only two things--to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man.”
“Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.”
“Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.”
Source: Bunyan
“Nature is life and discovery is death.”
“Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.”
Source: Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy
“Nature is like a canvas, a painting of countless options and possibilities. You don't really worship spirit, because you are also spirit, and spirits don't worship one another. What makes you different from spirit overall is that you are locked into temporality. You have a body, like a piece of cloth that is decayable. While you stay in it, it's hard for you to have the same abilities that spirit has without a body. It is also easy to make mistakes about what is real, and how to go about things effectively.”
“Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.”
Source: Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel
“Nature is located mainly in national parks, which are vast tracts of wilderness that have been set aside by the United States government so citizens will always have someplace to go where they can be attacked by bears. And we're not talking about ordinary civilian bears, either: We're talking about federal bears, which can behave however they want to because they are protected by the same union as postal clerks.”
Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
“Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.”
“Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures
“Nature is magic, Medea, and magic is nature. It is the rawest essence of our world, a power infused by the divine when they created it. It sings through Gaia’s veins, but only few can hear it, only those Hecate allows. Listen.”
Source: Medea
“Nature is malleable and nature learns.”
“Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e., nature is his body -- and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.”
Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document
“Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers