We talk of communing with Nature, but ‘tis with ourselves we commune… Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer’s mind.
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
When western culture developed, we became detached from nature, detached from our relationship with the animals. We saw animals perhaps as only the rhino horn, the elephant’s tusk, we saw it as making money.
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody – but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
There’s something overwhelming about being in raw nature. It’s got an aura about it is that is really kind of majestic and spiritual.
When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
All women are forces of nature, and I believe in their power.
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
The carnal nature of man is that he places his tribe above others, but the only basis for the power and unity of the church is that there is no Jew or Gentile.
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It’s a fact of life, like contradictions are.
