Quotes by Nature It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course. Anne Rice nature blessed night Rocks crumble, make new forms, Anne Sexton ocean nature change Nature is full of teeth Anne Sexton teeth nature fall Jewels! Today each twig is important, Anne Sexton nature important jewels Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect. Annie Besant butterfly form nature The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesn'tbut that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world's water and weather, the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz. Annie Dillard freedom nature beautiful Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe. Annie Dillard nature judging believe There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street. Annie Dillard enlightenment nature tree Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance! Nature will try anything once. Annie Dillard autumn nature believe Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets? Annie Dillard nature flower pet Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer apparently ascend bodily into heaven; the brightest oriole fades into leaves. Annie Dillard nature eye water Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself. Annie Leibovitz powerful nature strong It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams government fighting nature I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder. Ansel Adams nature beautiful believe Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price Ansel Adams conservation environmental nature Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas. Ansel Adams woods nature today The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. Ansel Adams nature creative life No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being. Ansel Adams climbing nature work In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury money nature perfect Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual. Anthony Burgess intelligent nature silly «7891011121314151617»