My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
Nature was my kindergarten.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
The groves were God's first temples.
The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.
Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
Man is nature's sole mistake.
I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
That's what nature meant us to do, breathe deep when we are stressed.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
People have long feared that mechanization might cause mass unemployment. This never happened because, as old professions became obsolete, new professions evolved, and there was always something humans could do better than machines. Yet this is not a law of nature, and nothing guarantees it will continue to be like that in the future.
At the end of the day, you can't compete with Mother Nature. If you've got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need.
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.