Top 84 Secret Of Nature Quotes
#1. To know the mechanics of the wave, is to know the entire secret of Nature.
Walter Russell
#3. All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
Graham Swift
#4. He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. Death, like birth, is a secret of nature." Only with birth you get a blanket and a bottle. You get a blanket with death too, but they call it a shroud and everyone else gets the bottle.
Richard Kadrey
#6. It is the child that sees the primordial secret of Nature and it is the child of ourselves we return to. the child within us is simple and daring enough to live the Secret.
Lao-Tzu
#7. But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent.
James Clerk Maxwell
#8. Let others know you possessed a secret, and some would work to learn it; that was a fact of nature.
Robert Jordan
#9. When the artist observes nature ... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.
Bruno Munari
#10. As soon as man seeks to penetrate the secrets of Nature
in which nothing is secret and it is but a question of seeing
he realizes that the simple produces the supernatural.
Honore De Balzac
#11. Adopt the pace of nature, said Ralph Waldo Emerson. Her secret is patience. Ray
Lisa Unger
#12. Human nature is universial, and it endures through all cultures and epochs. This is the secret of perenniality of certain poems and books.
Octavio Paz
#13. It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.
Mireille Enos
#14. Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran
#15. To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.
Honore De Balzac
#16. Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.
Loren Eiseley
#17. Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.
Robert Bridges
#18. The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
Albert Schweitzer
#19. Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.
John Ruskin
#20. Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
Seneca The Younger
#21. Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We're still in the cave. It's just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die ...
Greg Iles
#22. Prayer is not merely coming to God to ask something from him. It is above all fellowship with God and being brought under the power of his holiness and love, till he takes possession of us and stamps our entire nature with the lowliness of Christ, which is the secret of all true worship.
Andrew Murray
#23. Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids.
Bob Geldof
#24. A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.
Maria Montessori
#25. There are angels in nature walking amongst the trees and whispering the secret language of sacred things.
Jodi Sky Rogers
#26. Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.
Dag Hammarskjold
#27. Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.
Voltaire
#28. The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
Terence McKenna
#29. There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#30. Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an 'apocalypse of Nature,' a revealing of the 'open secret.
Thomas Carlyle
#31. Even as the needle that directs the hour,
(Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power
Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole;
Even so the wavering powers of my soul,
Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee
From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.
Francis Quarles
#32. The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature ... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#33. The Cause and Effect law is the secret gearing in the machinery of Nature.
Samael Aun Weor
#34. Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.
Frei Otto
#35. Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis Bacon
#36. Obstacles do not appear in your way in order to stop you. Rather, they appear in order to strengthen and hone you and your plans. They are not your enemy. They are your secret ally, but only if you treat them as friendly forces of nature.
Anodea Judith
#37. Absurd, irreducible; nothing
not even a profound and secret delirium of nature
could explain [a tree root].
Jean-Paul Sartre
#38. If you want to know your true nature, you must have yourself in mind all the time, until the secret of your being stands revealed.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
#39. The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.
C. Wright Mills
#40. The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded.
John Burroughs
#41. That clever mind, that sharp tongue and droll wit. His love for Ella, manifested in sacrifice and secret smiles; his sense of honor and duty; his pride in the face of unceasing subjugation. His joy of nature, his respect for all things living, his skill with ... well, everything.
Rachel Haimowitz
#42. Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.
Francis Bacon
#43. In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
Isak Dinesen
#44. The hour when he too would take part in the life of that world seemed drawing near and in secret he began to make ready for the great part which he felt awaited him the nature of which he only dimly apprehended.
James Joyce
#45. My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.
Max Born
#46. What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
Swami Vivekananda
#47. God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
Immanuel Kant
#48. Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
Albert Einstein
#49. The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God .
Albert Pike
#50. God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#51. Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find ou the secret of our own nature. They are test objects.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.
Stephen Harrigan
#53. The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.
Robert Heilbroner
#54. The secret of Christianity is in being. It is in being a possessor of the nature of Jesus Christ.
John G. Lake
#55. All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
Jacques Ellul
#57. How can you have faith in human nature when you think that a sewer and certain moments of Schumann or Brahms are connected by secret, shadowy, subterranean passageways.
Ernesto Sabato
#58. The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes ...
George Sand
#59. For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with a satanic symbol (cross), and a pagan idol (corpus). This secret has been concealed by the church for centuries after Christ.
Nwaocha Ogechukwu
#60. If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation in the divine in himself and the realization of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man on earth.
Sri Aurobindo
#61. If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature.
Federico Chini
#62. It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.
Ann Wroe
#63. Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
Honore De Balzac
#64. The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#65. The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.
Blaise Pascal
#66. Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. The secret of a happy life is to live a life with child-like simplicity, appreciate nature's beauty, and admire honesty.
Debasish Mridha
#68. There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.
Dorothea Dix
#69. Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
#70. His nature had developed like a flower, had borne blossoms of scarlet flame. Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his Soul, and Desire had come to meet it on the way.
Oscar Wilde
#71. If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source of happiness and peace that is always available, always renewable, already within us.
Elizabeth Lesser
#72. Like the Impressionists, I enjoy the effects of light, and especially natural light on the figure. If I could, I would take each viewer along to my favorite places along the seacoasts or in the mountains to the secret places of nature.
Ariana Richards
#73. What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?
Ellen Key
#74. In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.
Esther Forbes
#75. Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
Their language has been lost.
But not the gestures.
Vera Nazarian
#76. The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
James Anthony Froude
#77. Human life has the software and hardware to go the distance. All we need to do is know our nature and mimic nature's way. Do less and accomplish more; do nothing and accomplish everything is nature's secret to the miracle of life.
John Douillard
#78. But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H.P. Lovecraft
#79. If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#80. As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.
Otto Wallach
#81. In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#82. The singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself.
Umberto Eco
#83. When logics die,
The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
And blood jumps in the sun;
Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.
Dylan Thomas
#84. Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher's stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.
Mary Wollstonecraft