Quotes by Nature Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books. Alison Lurie nature loss book Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. Alphonse de Lamartine nature men heaven All nature is the temple; earth the altar. Alphonse de Lamartine temples nature earth The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer. Alvin Lustig nature relationship life Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Ambrose Bierce daughter nature religious REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm. Ambrose Bierce moles nature art MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. Ambrose Bierce nature brain science Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. Ambrose Bierce sarcastic nature beach UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse. Ambrose Bierce horse nature life NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. Ambrose Bierce nature mind life PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness. Ambrose Bierce punishment nature time MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. Ambrose Bierce nature nurse animal A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. Ambrose Bierce nature kings hands LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males. Ambrose Bierce support nature important Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. Ambrose Bierce circles cat nature Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness. Ambrose Bierce admonition nature science TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist ("Mendax interminabilis"). Ambrose Bierce novelists nature insomnia LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg "pate". Ambrose Bierce nature bird heaven when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment. Amelia Barr nature men children Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. Amory Lovins money nature inspirational «4567891011121314»