Best nature & speak Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals

“Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.”

People Ifs Way Heart Speak Nature Tree Mountain Difficulty Woods Forests Contemplation Preaching Preservation Sermons Deaf Pine Trees

Book:JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more

“Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.”

Mind Art Speak Nature Faculty

Author:George Sand

“The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.”

Men May Spiritual Law Order Speak Nature Doubt Worship No Doubt Moses Idolatry Ingenuity

Book:John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 2

Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 2

“The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said - that the President has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists - is true.”

Said Speak President Nature Threat Terrorist Isis Mayors Speak The Truth Gist

Author:Bobby Jindal

“Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.”

Action Speak Nature Genius

Author:Robert Blair

“Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Feelings Would Be Speak Nations Interest Nature Tree Worship Surprise Delight Woods Savages

Book:The Pleasures of the Life

Source: The Pleasures of the Life

“If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.”

Ifs Humor Action Funny Literature Speak Nature Forget Opinion Evidence Suicide Contemplation Sufficient Poetic Suicidal Actions Speak Louder Than Words Actions Speak Louder

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

Source: Poems

“We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.”

Moving Speak Voice Nature Tree Sea Clouds Wave Natural Environment Murmuring

Author:Paul Tillich

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”

“It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.”

Moments Seems Purpose Night Courses Speak Nature Common Design All Things Blessed Insult Tranquility

Book:New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire

Source: New Tales of the Vampires: includes Pandora and Vittorio the Vampire

“Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.”

Truth Speak Language Understanding Nature Morning Sad Bird Rage Warning Scream Every Morning Lungs Rockers Lack Of Understanding Birdsong Daybreak Language Barriers Birds Chirping

Author:Kurt Cobain

“Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.”

Men Inspirational May Two Speak Given Nature Health Ears Tongue

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”

“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”

“To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.”

Ifs Knows Want Real Feelings Science Speak Language Difficult Nature Learning Discovery Appreciate Mathematics Nature Beauty Real Feelings

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.”

Knows Way Believe Speak Nature Tree Color Flower Originals Metaphor Snow Entity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.”

Ifs Feels I Can Speak Nature Achieve Effects Flower Garden Infinite Blue Tone Colour Someday Old Fashioned Matching Flower Garden Monet

Author:Marcel Proust

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.”

“I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of experimentation. When it is going well, it is like a quiet conversation with Nature. One asks a question and gets an answer, then one asks the next question and gets the next answer. An experiment is a device to make Nature speak intelligibly. After that, one only has to listen.”

Way Feels Wells Hands Science Next Asks Speak Causes Nature Answers Listening Quiet Conversation Experiments Devices Crude Experimentation Scientific Method Dialectics

Author:George Wald

“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

“You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.”

Source: The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby

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