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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658
- Art
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IIn context
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022Touching Peace (1992), p. 1. Parallax Press
- Beauty
We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of biology.
Yuval Noah Harariborn 1976Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 4: “The Flood”
- Animals
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can’t get out of it if we would!
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Jude the Obscure (1895), Part Fifth: At Aldbrickham and Elsewhere, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Good & Evil
Growing up brought responsibilities, he found. Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought. Nature’s logic was too horrid for him to care for. That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Jude the Obscure (1895), Part First: At Marygreen, Chapter IIIn context
- Maturity
Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The American Notebooks (1835—1853), 1838
- Art
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is a part of the interplay between nature and ourselves; it describes nature as exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
- Science
Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
- Science
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
- Science
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
Heraclitus535–470 BCFragment 30
Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. “Leave me alone! It’s not time to get up yet!”
Frank Herbert1920–1986“Introduction” to New World or No World (1970)
I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
Werner Herzogborn 1942“Grizzly Man” (2006)
A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure. It offers a necessity of life that must be rationed among those who have power over it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Writing for the Court, New Jersey v. New York, et al., 283 U.S. 336, 342 (1931).
Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct — if you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to conduct as such — the judgment of death.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Address at the dedication of the Northwestern University Law School Building, Chicago, Illinois (20 October 1902); republished in Holmes’ Collected Legal Papers (1937), p. 272.