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"753 Nature Quotes

All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.
Entire Full Names Particular
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In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

Any Bigger City Illusion
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There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

Goes Lot Memorize School
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I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
Deaths Environments Fascinated Havoc
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I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

Enough Figure Intelligent Know
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The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Eclipse Solar Spectacle Total
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Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

Alive Animal Every Much
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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

Both Facts Important More
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Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

Appears Due Earth Moreover
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In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

Conduct Natural Nature Science
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Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.

Dark Energy Exotic Expansion
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You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.
Learned School Pencil Paper
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I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.

Intimate Most Things Think
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

Earth Inherit Meek Mineral
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
Delight Fund Here Nature
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A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

Always Been Failure Hatred
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With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Nature Sound Music
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Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

Earth Flower
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The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

Creating Now Rockets Satellites
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With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

Big Crazy Growing Horse
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Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.

Anyone Believes Earth He
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

About Concerns Find How
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Humanity will... be confronted with dangers of unprecedented character unless, in due time, measures can be taken to forestall a disastrous competition in such formidable armaments and to establish an international control of the manufacture and use of the powerful materials.

Character Competition Confronted Control
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

Also Angelic Created Elves
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
Agile Down Elves Focused
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All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

Nature Vast symbolism Material Spiritual truth
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But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

Cloud Never comes Horizon Watch
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But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafless - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.
Trees Gorgeous Autumnal leafless
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Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
Am Blue Red Roses
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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Giant Hip Jungle Primitive
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Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Always Another Being Bit
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Anxiety Man Natural Role
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Bachelors Cool Like Never
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A weed is but an unloved flower.
A wed Unloved flower
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Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

Always Country Creates Every
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Nature is a petrified magic city.
City Magic Nature Petrified
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Cannot Having Itself Nature
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Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

Beneath Earth Feet Heaven
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You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
Brush Paint You Your
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Cannot Coming Cut Flowers
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Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

First FirstThing FirstTime Go
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Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.
Away Good Like Moon
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In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.

Sea Shore Summer Felt
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Admit Appearances Both Causes
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Acted Along Force Line
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What goes up must come down.
Come Down Goes Must
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

After Age Any Better
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Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Absolute Always Anything Bodies
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
Bodies Light Rays Shining
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

All Things Blind Blind Man Colors
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