Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Nature Quotes, World Quotes

Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

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

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Attitude Quotes

We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Nature Quotes , Believe Quotes

Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.

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

on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Nature Quotes , Men Quotes

April, like a child, Writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers, Wipes them away and forgets.

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Nature Quotes , Children 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

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Nature Quotes , Educational Quotes

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Nature Quotes , People Quotes

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Appreciation Quotes , Nature Quotes

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Peace Quotes , Nature Quotes

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Nature Quotes , Fate Quotes

Because clarity and enlightenment are within your own nature, they are regained without moving an inch.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Nature Quotes , Moving Quotes

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Life Quotes , Nature Quotes

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

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

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Nature Quotes , Get Well Quotes

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Art Quotes , Nature Quotes

Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

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

What is art? Nature concentrated.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Art Quotes , Nature Quotes

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Nature Quotes