Quotes About Contemplating Nature

#1. Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

Edgar Degas

#2. You can achieve enlightenment by simply spending time contemplating nature: the formation of clouds, the beauty of the forest, and the lifecycle of the beings that dwell within.

Loren Mayshark

#3. We are of a broad, Karamazovian nature
and this is what I am driving at
capable of containing all possible opposites and of contemplating both abysses at once, the abyss above us, an abyss of lofty ideals, and the abyss beneath us, and abyss of the lowest and foulest degradation.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. So it does turn out that we do need to begin by contemplating the profound nature of self and other. Because if you change the leaves and branches but leave the roots intact, you run the risk of reverting to type.

Norman Fischer

#5. The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

Alexander Pope

#6. But for you, work is play. Not to work would be work.

Elaine N. Aron

#7. British Statesman, parliamentary orator and political thinker, Edmund Burke once said, "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it." This is true to say the least.

Robert Paulson

#8. Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating.

Paulo Coelho

#9. If you give voters a choice between a Democrat who promises to do nothing and a Republican who promises to do nothing, they're generally going to side with the Republican, because they're better at that than we are.

Martin O'Malley

#10. Something inside me burned bright when he said that. A hell of a lot of people had seen me last night, but only one person had noticed the tiny details. Only one person has been close enough to see what really mattered. And that person was still standing with me now.

Robin Benway

#11. A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.

David Harsanyi

#12. When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

Jane Austen

#13. What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story
something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

Douglas Coupland

#14. The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

Patanjali

#15. Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the continuously recurring rhythm of progress-as inevitable, as natural and benevolent as sleep.

J.M.E. McTaggart