Nature - Quotes
We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creatures through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he`s destroying is this God he`s worshiping.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
I`m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don`t need training - they just are.
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.