Best nature & lying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.”

Heart Lying Nature Perfect Judgment Models Gains Rely Copying Gateways Helm Stout

Book:The Craftsman's Handbook

Source: The Craftsman's Handbook

“One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature-inexhaustible abundance amid what seems enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable wealth of the universe.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”

“The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.”

Lying Nature Shapes Creating Absolutes Abstract

Book:Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

“O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.”

Eye Lying Mother Waiting Nature Secret Patient Bosoms Gracious

Author:Margaret Junkin Preston

“All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.”

Source: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.”

Made Eye Lying Nature Sleep Sky Green Staring Laziness Going To Sleep Brightness

Book:Master Humphrey's Clock

Source: Master Humphrey's Clock

“Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.”

Way May Reason Hands America Lying Nature Vision Principles Destiny Fate Events Pride Determine Impulse Arrogance Our Future Tides Our Destiny Irresistible Matched

Author:Robert Kennedy

“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.”

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.”

Knows Inspirational Believe Truth Lying I Believe Nature Knowledge Human Nature Slave Ignorant Telling The Truth Be A Slave

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”

Way Mind Lying Nature Knowledge Treasure Honey Insects Beehives

Book:The birth of tragedy and The genealogy of morals

Source: The birth of tragedy and The genealogy of morals

“I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.”

Thinking Facts Lying Choices Force Nature Gay Lgbt Homosexuality

Author:Marlo Thomas

“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

World Feels May Children Stills Light Lying Night Stars Grows Waiting Sound Water Nature Grief Grace Taxes Despair Blind Woods My Children Wild Things Forethought Still Waters Herons

Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?”

“To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—”

Book Lying Poetry Nature Sky Summer Summertime Summer Garden Sky And Clouds Summer Inspirational Great Summer

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.”

World Lying Nature Natural Details Natural World

Author:Natalie Angier

“High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A new day has begun on the crane marsh. A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place ... Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”

Art Beautiful Lying Values Language Nature Ability Silence Quality Stage Cry Lows Heavy Perceive Shakes Thick Horns New Day Trumpets Marshes Cranes Bogs Pandemonium

Author:Aldo Leopold

“Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.”

Lying Grows Nature Down And

Book:But Will it Sell?

Source: But Will it Sell?

“One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.”

World Life Persons Hands Lying Religion Heaven Nature Common This World Divine Lessons Pure Hardest This Life Celestial

Book:Complete writings of John Burroughs

Source: Complete writings of John Burroughs

“To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them, realizing that they are likely to be overlaid by other, secondary mechanisms. What seems to physicists to be a hopelessly complicated process may have been what nature found simplest, because nature could only build on what was already there.”

Trying May Has Beens Seems Science Lying Found Process Nature Realizing Produce Theory Evolution Simplicity Complicated Biology Mechanism Simplest Physicist Clutter

Author:Francis Crick

“That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity; in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization”

Men Humans May Art States Science Lying Nature Race Struggle Civilization Constant Worthy Human Race Organized Opposition Constant Struggle

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.”

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author

“Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.”

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