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“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?”

People Ifs Humans Art Ends Would Be Grows Nature Natural Deals Common Bears Husband Understood Common Sense Pockets Justify Obliged Beard Not Happy Human Society Your Husband

Author:Mary Wortley Montagu

“the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.”

Giving Different Earth Nature Bears Summer Garden Breaths Various Woods Tales Soil Relief Showers Leafs Sigh Relaxed Fragrance Mold Odor Pastures Turf Sigh Of Relief

Author:Mabel Osgood Wright

“The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.”

Source: Oliver Twist

“Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.”

Source: Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing

“Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things!”

Life Wells Black Nature Education Teach Teacher Bears Bird Philosophical Frozen Nests Good Teacher Vulture

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”

Men Happens Nature Bears Philosophical Endurance

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.”

Reason Nature Bears Scales Conclusion Sensuality Baseness

Author:Roger Chamberlain

“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

“Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.”

Ifs Eye Past Left Growth Nature Tree Bears Mark Green Hills Rooted Thorough New Growth

Book:The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.”

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Book:Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Source: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

“It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?”

“Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.”

Source: A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick

“Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.”

Knows Children Care Science Nature Natural Bears Divides Fur Monarchs

Book:The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials