N Quotes
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“Nature is not human hearted.”
“Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit”
Source: The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung
“Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.”
“Nature is not natural and that is natural enough.”
“Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
“Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature
is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this,
and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the
path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the
mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that
nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until
it is now nearly too late.”
“Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.”
“Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we know as Life and of all the ordinances which govern that universe and that make Life continuous. She is no more the Hebrew's Jehovah than she is the Physicist's Force; she is as much Providence as she is Electricity; she is not the Great Pattern any more than she is the Blind Chance.”
“Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. We’re so used to evaluating everything (and everyone) by their usefulness that this thought will take a minute or two to begin to dawn on us. Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Which is to say, beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good, something we need in large and daily doses.”
Source: Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
“Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.”
“Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.”
“Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used. But what man should seek in regard to nature is not a complete domination but a modus vivendi - that is, a manner of living together, a coming to terms with something that was here before our time and will be here after it. The important corollary of this doctrine, it seems to me, is that man is not the lord of creation, with an omnipotent will, but a part of creation, with limitations, who ought to observe a decent humility in the face of the inscrutable.”
“Nature is not something to conquer, but something to learn from or to merge with and be part of - to dance with, celebrate.”
“Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.”
“Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.”
Source: Undercover
“Nature is not to be understood, but felt so immensely that one identifies with it personally.”
“Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.”
“Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).”
Source: Full House
“Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.”
“Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life. You'll likely never see a slick commercial for nature therapy, as you do for the latest antidepressant pharmaceuticals. But parents, educators, and health workers need to know what a useful antidote to emotional and physical stress nature can be. Especially now.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.”
“Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace.”
“Nature is one of the representations of the Universal mind.”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.”
Source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition
“Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.”
“Nature is only another chimera.”
“Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.”
Source: The Practice of the Wild
“Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare”
“Nature is our chapel.”
“Nature is our friend - trees, squirrels, grass, fields, meadows, oceans - without people. Hike. Walk. Stroll. Bike. Swim. Be in a still place and feel eternity. Have a great time. Just feel it.”
“Nature is our greatest teacher.”
“Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.”
“Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature.”
“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.”
“Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!”
“Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.”
Source: Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”
“Nature is poetry, dreams, and the coming to oneself. The wind takes us away and toward, changing our direction, closing our eyes against the dust it stirs up from the ground. Where it came from cannot be found.
The sun is light and so the moon, looking from the sky on to the earth below.
The rain brings water to fill the lakes and streams, and fall upon the children running in the yard, mouths wide open to drink it in.
And what of the trees? Hug them, love them, sit beneath their shelter, draw upon their roots, see the leaves and shoots reaching for the sky, and always wonder why.”
“Nature is poetry only a naturalist can fathom,
Science is poetry only a scientist can fathom.
Math is poetry only a mathematician can fathom,
Love is poetry only a lover can fathom.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Nature is powerful and beautiful,
Nature is destructive and creative,
Nature is amazing and wonderful,
Nature is loving and graceful.”
“Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.”
“Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.”
“Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.”
“Nature is really good at capital productivity and capital allocation. Every leaf on every tree is positioned to maximize photosynthesis. Every root on every tree is positioned to maximize nutrient sequestration. And all of the leaves and all of the roots live in service to each other.”
“Nature is really good at capital utilization, capital allocation and capital productivity.”
“Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.”
“Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.”
“Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.”