Natural Force Quotes

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough.

This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down.

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where?

You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.

The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, making contacts, occasionally leaping out on unsuspecting shepherds or blasting quite small oak trees. Now an opening in the weather had given it an opportunity to strut its hour, and it was building up its role in the hope of being spotted by one of the big climates.

For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it.

Love is the only thing that makes the world spin around, I think. It's weird. We have to call it "love," because we have to call it something, but it's not a word. It's an energy. It's an act. It's an action. It's a natural thing.

You are one of the forces of nature.

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

Never underestimate the power of the ocean.