Pastoral Resources

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

Nature is our chapel.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book.

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.