N Quotes
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“Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.”
“Nature is medicinal; the sun, large bodies of water, and deep breaths of fresh air. Healing is found in the mountains, amidst a forest, by fire, and water. I still recall how healing it was to be home, my parents' island, waking up to tropical sounds of morning; monkeys, tropical birds, and tropical animals discussing their days, feet in sand, and the glorious sound of tropical rain. Visuals of lush greens and vibrant flowers, nature calls us into ourselves, nature calls us home”
“Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power. Artifice is the work of mere man, in the imbecility of his mimic understanding.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series
“Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.”
“Nature is monumentally indifferent.”
“Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.”
“Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.”
“Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.”
Source: Contarini Fleming: A Romance
“Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.”
Source: Science and Human Values
“Nature is mother that gives happiness to humanity,
It sublimes the fire in us by going on in our life,
That is the law of Nature,
It is a cycle of Creation, Restoration and destruction,
A human can’t do anything but to accept it,
Those accepts the law becomes one with nature,
And for those who doesn’t,
Nature also doesn’t accept humans and everyone knows the
consequences,
But foolish people keep on doing bloody experiment!”
Source: Love Forever
“Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'”
“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.”
“Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it......if I can only get the two acquainted.”
“Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.”
“Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.”
“Nature is nature.”
“Nature is neither anyone's relative, nor has it cheated anyone.”
“Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.”
“Nature is neither random nor deterministic, but history has shown that there is a continuous alternation between these two views.”
Source: Causality and Chance in Modern Physics
“Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.”
“Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.”
“Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.”
“Nature is never constrained to change, and that which is once formed cannot simply will to reverse itself wrongly, since desire is not nature. Desire can alter the character of something already formed, but it cannot remake its nature... (Clement of Alexandria d. ca. 215 A.D.)”
Source: Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History
“Nature is never devoid of storms and our life’s nature is quite
similar. Many storms gather, occur, and pass away in one lifetime.
Sometimes one huge hurricane may tend to destroy everything in
our lives, yet we should not fear the tempest. A storm comes to life
like a lesson sometimes, when we have no choice but to learn from
the atmospheric gale.”
Source: Attainable
“Nature is never finished.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.”
“Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.”
“Nature is never static. It is always changing. Everything is in a constant state of flux. Nothing endures. Everything is in the process of either coming into being or expiring.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Nature is never the same twice; this inconsistency requires adaptability. There are limitless problems in the world. If we think like a machine we only find ourselves with the same problems. The problems are there because we haven't adapted a solution; the only way to find a solution is to think outside the machine.
This thinking is necessary to a natural food system. There are no two vegetables that are the same, no two days of cooking that are the same, no two humans that are the same. Industrial systems give us the same ingredients every day, through all the seasons. When you put square shapes in square spaces, you don't understand the circle.
Your thinking becomes linear and you can't adapt.
When you adapt, your mind is able to make connections and find solutions to the unpredictable nature of real food.”
“Nature is nobody's ally.”
Source: The Poems of Herman Melville
“Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.”
“Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.”
“Nature is not a backdrop to your life. It is the very stage, the script, and the breath behind your lines.”
“Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.”
“Nature is not a free lunch, but we treat it as a free lunch.”
“Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.”
Source: Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
Source: The Practice of the Wild
“Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.”
Source: The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
“Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.”
“Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.”
“Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures
“Nature is not anthropomorphic.”
“Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.”
Source: The writings of John Burroughs
“Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency.”
“Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.”
Source: River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
“Nature is not dumb. Humanity is dumb when we can't hear or when we forget how to communicate with nature. Nature is very much alive. Intelligent living beings and vibrant energies are all over the planet.”
Source: Walk in Balance: The Path to Healthy, Happy, Harmonious Living
“Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.”
“Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.”
“Nature is not here to keep you alive. It has just as many ways to kill you as it does to sustain you. And if you cherry-pick this fact, you are left thinking that earth is some haven for life, but 96, 97 percent of all species that ever lived on earth are now extinct from the actions of the earth itself and an occasional asteroid to stir the pot.”
“Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.”
Source: How to be a Bad Birdwatcher: To the Greater Glory of Life