“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
Nature does not need us, but we desperately need it. These quotes celebrate the natural world — forests, oceans, mountains, seasons — and the perspective that comes from spending time in places where human concerns feel very small.
“A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.”
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
“In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.”
“There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.”
“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
“He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.”
“Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.”
“I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.”
“Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?”
“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
“I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.”
“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.”
“We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.”