Quotes about Nature
Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.
— Nancy Pearcey
The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.
— Robert Frost
The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.
— Thomas Merton
It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
— Wendell Berry
The world is whole beyond human knowing.
— Wendell Berry
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
— John F. Kennedy
Let the mad poets say whate'er they pleaseOf the sweets of Fairies, Peris, Goddesses,Haunters of cavern, lake, and waterfall,As a real woman, lineal indeedFrom Pyrrha's pebbles or old Adam's seed.
— John Keats
I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
— John Keats
To one who has been long in city pent,'Tis very sweet to look into the fairAnd open face of heaven.
— John Keats