A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.
-James Dent
Quotations
Nature
Real education is only possible by always keeping in touch with nature.
-Swami Vivekananda
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
-Albert Einstein
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?
-John Steinbeck
"Travels with Charley: In Search of America"
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
-Margaret Fuller
Men argue. Nature acts.
-Voltaire
The true nature of action is very difficult to understand. Therefore, one should know the nature of attached, detached and forbidden actions.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 4.17"
Garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
-Gertrude Jekyll "Gertrude Jekyll"
Just as rivers flow from east and west to merge with the one sea, forgetting that they were ever separate rivers, so all beings lose their separateness when they eventually merge into pure Being.
- Upanishads "Chandogya Upanishad"
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
-Martin Cruz Smith
