Jul 16, 2010

Nature Quotes 6

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus


Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

John Burroughs


Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Henry David Thoreau


Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon


Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead


Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Dag Hammarskjold


Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Diane Ackerman


Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce


One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie


One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

William Shakespeare


People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch


Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

John Lubbock


Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Henry David Thoreau


Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.

Joan Collins


Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Winston Churchill


Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Roger Miller


Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Jean Paul

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