When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.
I don't work from nature, I work like nature.
Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
The physician treats, but nature heals.
Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.
I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.
Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature. . . . I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise from the depth of your caring and the truth of your interconnectedness with all beings.
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.