Alice Walker Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Nature Quotes

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Meaningful Quotes , Nature Quotes

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Nature Quotes , Optimism Quotes

Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Running Quotes , Nature Quotes

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sympathy Quotes , Nature Quotes

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Clouds Quotes

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Nature Quotes , Sea Quotes

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Nature Quotes , Way Quotes

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Nature Quotes , War Quotes

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Lonely Quotes , Nature Quotes

Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Nature Quotes , Stars Quotes

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Nature Quotes , Struggle Quotes

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Nature Quotes , Inspiration Quotes

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Nature Quotes , Perfect Quotes

What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adolf Bastian Quotes , Nature Quotes , Science Quotes

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Character Quotes

If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Nature Quotes , Sex Quotes

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Nature Quotes

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Nature Quotes , Revenge Quotes

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Nature Quotes