Naturalism Quotes (page 3)

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• consider
• kindness
• reflection

Nature at times adds her own commentary to our actions with a kind of somber and considered eloquence, as though she were bidding us reflect. Victor Hugo

• she
• nature
• words

Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that Howard must be as brimful of ecstasy as she was; but to express these feelings out loud, when the news of death was still fresh in the air, would have been tantamount to dancing naked and shrieking obscenities, and Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside. J. K. Rowling

• bad
• life
• expectation

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation. Oswald Chambers

• beautiful
• painting
• picture

Nature is painting for us day after day pictures of infinite beauty... John Ruskin

• nature
• conspires
• naturally

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• nature
• book
• natural

Nature and books belong to all who see them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• dead
• may
• wishes

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• charity
• nature
• vote

Nature will get rights as soon as it gets duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote. P. J. O'Rourke

• rock
• history
• nature

Nature will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• nature
• forms
• formative

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem. Anais Nin

• nature
• lost
• may

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost. Oscar Wilde

• nature
• imagination
• commander

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights. Henry B. Adams

• nature
• natures
• natural

Nature is a bottom-line concept. Terry Eagleton

• nature
• diamond
• play

Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds... Virginia Woolf

• nature
• light
• life

Nature, uncontainable, flowing, forelooking, in the first sentiment of kindness anticipates already a benelovence which shall lose all particular regards in it's general light, the introduction to this felicity is in a private and tender relation of one to one; which is the enchantment of human life; which, like a certain divine rage and enthusiasm, seizes on man at one period, and works a revolution in his mind and body; unites him to his race. Ralph Waldo Emerson