Nature Quotes

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

A man should carry nature in his head.

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

Nature abhors the old.

Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.