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Quotes about nature
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. (Crook Mackenzie)
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city. (Crook Mackenzie)
Nature never says one thing and wisdom another. (Crook Mackenzie)
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. (Crook Mackenzie)
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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. (Crook Mackenzie)
Nature uses as little as possible of anything. (Crook Mackenzie)
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. (Crook Mackenzie)
Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. (Crook Mackenzie)
Nature is not human hearted. (Crook Mackenzie)
Nature is not human hearted. (Crook Mackenzie)
All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor our precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature. (Crook Mackenzie)
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. (Crook Mackenzie)
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature --were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature. (Crook Mackenzie)
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. (Crook Mackenzie)
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves. (Crook Mackenzie)
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. (Crook Mackenzie)
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature. (Crook Mackenzie)
The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity. (Crook Mackenzie)
Let Nature have her way; she understands her business better than we do. (Crook Mackenzie)
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. (Crook Mackenzie)
Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning. (Crook Mackenzie)
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. (Crook Mackenzie)
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. (Crook Mackenzie)
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. (Crook Mackenzie)
All nature is but art unknown to thee. (Crook Mackenzie)
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