Quotes about Nature

The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn. Concentration

The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn.

I am a unique creature of nature. I am rare and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable

The acorn contains the oak

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

The sky was pure opal now.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.

And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be? It would be this: the world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.

Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones.