“The law of nature is, do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary sourceTo see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
“The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have I seen so many. I always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but I was sure of it that night.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“That Beauty is the normal state, is shown by the perpetual effort of Nature to attain it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.”
— Jack London Primary source“Standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occured in experience.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.”
— Jack London Primary source“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.”
— Jack London Primary sourcePower Beauty Cause and Effect Time Strength