Pastoral Resources

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours."

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.