Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Country Quotes, Nature Quotes

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

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I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Nature Quotes , Men Quotes

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Science 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.

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

It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Morning Quotes

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Nature Quotes , Perfect Quotes

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Wall Quotes

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Heart Quotes

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

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

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Change Quotes , Nature Quotes

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

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Tags : Bodhidharma Quotes , Life Quotes , Nature Quotes

And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Men Quotes

The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do) of turning with the skid, of controlling ourselves by cooperating with ourselves.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Love Quotes , Nature Quotes

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Nature Quotes , Hate Quotes

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Nature Quotes

Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Nature Quotes , Science Quotes

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

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

May books and nature be their early joy!

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Nature Quotes , Book Quotes

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Nature Quotes , Rain Quotes

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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