Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.
Interpretation
Nature is strict and unforgiving, allowing no mistakes or sloppiness.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the inherent order and discipline found in nature. Unlike human society, which may be lenient and forgiving, nature holds a firm stance against mistakes, suggesting that one must respect its laws and principles to thrive.
In practice
This quote can be used in an environmental awareness speech to highlight the importance of respecting nature's rules.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
How many million Aprils came before I ever knew how white a cherry bough could be, a bed of squills, how blue And many a dancing April when life is done with me, will lift the blue flame of the flower and the white flame of the tree Oh burn me with your beauty then, oh hurt me tree and flower, lest in the end death try to take even this glistening hour.
It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.
As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I said, 'Well, maybe I can lend a voice to this with an equal passion.' You realize how lucky we are and how destructive we've been and what little regard we have for the natural world.
The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.
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