Nature Quotes
O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
Experience is never at fault; it is only your judgment that is in error in promising itself such results from experience as are not caused by our experiments. For having given a beginning, what follows from it must necessarily be a natural development of such a beginning, unless it has been subject to a contrary influence, while, if it is affected by any contrary influence, the result which ought to follow from the aforesaid beginning will be found to partake of this contrary influence in a greater or less degree in proportion as the said influence is more or less powerful than the aforesaid beginning.
The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish, a grampus or sperm whale, because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
The sun so soon as ever it appears in the east instantly proceeds with its rays to the west; and these are made up of three incorporeal forces, namely radiance, heat, and the image of the shape which produces these.
The sun has substance, shape, movement, radiance, heat and generative power; and these qualities all emanate from itself without its diminution.
The beginning of the branch will always have the central line of its thickness taking its direction by the central line of the plant.
The thickness of a branch is never diminished in the space there is between one leaf and another except by as much as the thickness of the eye that is above the leaf, and this thickness is lacking in the branch up to the next leaf.
This ramification of the elm has the largest branch in front, and its smallest are the first and the penultimate when the chief branch is straight.
The cicatrices of trees grow in thickness more than the sap that flows through them and nourishes them requires.
All the branches of trees at every stage of their height, united to-gether, are equal to the thickness of their trunk.
All seeds have the umbilical cord, which breaks when the seed is ripe. And in like manner they have matrix and secundina, as is seen in herbs and all the seeds which grow in pods. But those which grow in shells, such as hazel-nuts, pistachio-nuts and the like have the umbilical cord long, and this shows itself in their infancy.
The water wears away the mountains and fills up the valleys, and if it had the power it would reduce the earth to a perfect sphere.
Opposite the castle of Bellagio is an insignificant stream which falls from a height of more than a hundred braccia from the spring where it rises sheer into the lake with inconceivable din and uproar. This spring flows only in August and September.
A bird as it rises always sets its wings above the wind and without beating them, and it always moves in a circular movement.
I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.
Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.
Forests require many years to mature; consequently the long point of view is necessary if the forests are to be maintained for the good of our country.
We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days.
I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's wealth deep under the earth are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people.
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