NATURE QUOTES VI

quotations about nature

VR nature is dumbed-down nature. In the future, those using VR may be able to move around more and even choose their own route through an open VR space. That will allow more degrees of freedom, but when you bump your head into a VR rock, what happens to your head? Nothing! You're not bound by nature--but neither can you be freed through it.

PETER KAHN

"Technology is changing our relationship with nature as we know it", Quartz, August 8, 2017


Nature is God perpetually working; and we need only look around us to see and to feel that truth of a Providence to which our deepest instincts turn.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Nature does nothing uselessly.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

KOBO ABE

The Green Stockings

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Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede

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The student of nature is like one who goes with a candle into some immense cavern. Presently a little circle becomes clear, the shadows vanish before him, and undefined forms grow distinct. He thinks he is near the end, when, lo! what seemed a solid boundary of rock dissolves and floats away into a depth of darkness, the path opens into an immense void, new shapes of mystery start out, and he learns this much that he did not know before, that instead of being near the end he is only upon the threshold.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Nature talks in symbols; he who lacks imagination cannot understand her.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Nature is a library of divine thoughts to the spiritualized mind.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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Search out the wisdom of Nature, there is depth in all her doings.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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Nature isn't just something that pushes up through the sidewalk cracks and keeps the farmers trapped in the sticks but is an elixir, a luxury that can be bought and fenced off and kept pure for the more fortunate, in an impure age.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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There is constant life in [Nature], motion and development; and yet she remains where she was. She is eternally changing, nor for a moment does she stand still. Of rest she knows nothing, and to all stagnation she has affixed her curse. She is steadfast; her step is measured, her exceptions rare, her laws immutable.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

"Premonition", A Hermit of Carmel and Other Poems

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Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods

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God made the forests, the tiny stars, and the wild winds--and I think that he made them partly as a balance for that kind of civilization that would choke the spirit of joy out of our hearts. He made the great open places for the people who want to be alone with him and talk to him, away from the crowds that kill all reverence. And I think that he is glad at times to have us forget our cares and responsibilities that we may be nearer him--as Jesus was when he crept away into the wilderness to pray.

MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER

"The Gypsy Spirit"

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Nature never breaks her laws.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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All things bend to help the man
Who seeks to harmonize
His own free will with nature's plan,
And prove himself most wise.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Destiny"

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The inexorable ticking of the clock is like the throb of pain to sensations made keen by sickening fear. And so it is with the great clockwork of nature. Daisies and buttercups give way to the brown waving grasses, tinged with the warm red sorrel; the waving grasses are swept away, and the meadows lie like emeralds set in the bushy hedgerows; the tawny-tipped corn begins to bow with the weight of the full ear; the reapers are bending amongst it, and it soon stands in sheaves; then, presently the patches of yellow stubble lie side by side with streaks of dark-red earth, which the plough is turning up in preparation for the new-thrashed seed. And this passage from beauty to beauty, which to the happy is like the flow of a melody, measures for many a human heart the approach of foreseen anguish--seems hurrying on the moment when the shadow of dread will be followed up by the reality of despair.

GEORGE ELIOT

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story

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