One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my beautiful thoughts and my love for the things God has made. But I find that the happiness springing from all things not in themselves si...
La nature est une oeuvre d'art, mais Dieu est le seul artiste qui existe, et l'homme n'est qu'un arrangeur de mauvais goût. La nature est belle, le sentiment s'exhale de tous ses pores; l'amour, la jeunesse, la beauté y sont impérissables. Mais l'...
If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulder with even speed. You will then ...
The whole concatenation of wild and artificial things, the natural ecosystem as modified by people over the centuries, the build environment layered over layers, the eerie mix of sounds and smells and glimpses neither natural nor crafted- all of it i...
Know ye not that there is here in this world a secret confraternity, which one might call the Company of Melancholiacs? That people there are who by natural constitution have been given a different nature and disposition than the others; that have a ...
Reverend Clement Hedges: This was no man. Does a man have teeth the size of axe blades? Or ears like terrible tombstones? By tampering with nature, forcing vegetables to swell far beyond their natural size, we have brought a terrible judgement upon o...
Auric Goldfinger: [Playing golf with Bond] Two holes to go. James Bond: Yes, and all's square. Auric Goldfinger: Then you have no objection to increasing the stakes? James Bond: No. What did you have in mind? Auric Goldfinger: Why, the bar of gold yo...
I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing. : You're n...
Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.
There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.
Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature
I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.
Nature doesn't give a damn for convenience, and never has.
L'architecture transforme un état de nature, en état de culture.
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.
A good river is nature's life work in song.
Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window
Behavioral science is not for sissies.
The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
