Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: nature

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Nature has always had more force than education.

The world is always in movement.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

You can't just let nature run wild.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Good and evil. Right and wrong.Those are two fundamental opposing concepts that define the nature of humankind.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Autumn's the mellow time.

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.