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  • Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

    Bertolt Brecht (1965). “The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays”, p.111, Grove Press
  • God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

    Art   Nature   Men  
    Victor Hugo (1905). “William Shakespeare”
  • Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

  • Cold and silence. Nothing quieter than snow. The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard. But once the snow covers the ground, it hushes as still as my heart.

    Nature   Heart   Sky  
    Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.130, Macmillan
  • The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the fall and scold all year long; bobcats track the snowy lake in winter; deer browse the willow shoots in spring. Humans are but intruders who have presumed the right to be observers, and who, out of observation, find understanding.

    Nature   Spring   Flower  
    Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.9, Big Earth Publishing
  • Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.

    Nature   Water   Evening  
  • Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

    Nature   Animal   Men  
  • All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

    Nature   Earth   Temples  
  • An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

    Nature   School   Parent  
    Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.176, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

    Historia Animalium VIII.I (transl. D. W. Thompson)
  • Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

    Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.97, Princeton University Press
  • Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?

    Nature   Hands   Sea  
    John Milton (2003). “The Major Works”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA
  • It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

    Nature   Character   Men  
    Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.14, Penguin
  • . . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass away: for those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the creator-they are his undefiled works, and the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

    Nature   Regret   Men  
  • The earth is what we all have in common.

    Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.97, Counterpoint
  • Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

    Nature   Heart   Night  
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Claude Mitchell Simpson (1972). “The American notebooks”, Ohio State Univ Pr
  • He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

    Love   Nature   Science  
    "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 2248, 1732.
  • Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

  • There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

    Nature   Book   Three  
    William Hazlitt (1824). “Sketches of the Principal Picture-galleries in England, with a Criticism on "Marriage A-la-mode.".”, p.51
  • Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

    Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.17, North Point Press
  • Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.

    Nature   Islands   Pieces  
    Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.120, Ballantine Books
  • Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.

  • We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

  • By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

    Nature   Bait   Allure  
    Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.40, Bantam Classics
  • As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

    Life   Death   Nature  
    William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.427
  • We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

    Nature   Mean   Humanity  
    "The Diversity of Life". Book by Edward O. Wilson, 1992.
  • It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

    Nature   Animal   Men  
    Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press
  • Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

    Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

    Time   Nature   Flower  
  • Art is the child of Nature.

    Nature   Art   Children  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.645, Library of America
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