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?
Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.
It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken, seabirds in ones or twos. The rackety, icy, offshore wind numbed our faces on one side; disrupted the formation of a lone flight of Canada geese; and blew back the low, inaudible rollers in upright, steely mist.
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who refer to plants by Latin name are considered more expert, if a little pedantic.
The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.
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