We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.
We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.