The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.
I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one's nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Nature does nothing in vain.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
In nature there are few sharp lines.
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.
By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.