Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
Interpretation
Nature is inherently grand and majestic, keeping its mysteries hidden without deceit.
In this quote, Albert Einstein suggests that the depth and beauty of nature lie in its inherent complexity and grandeur. Rather than intentionally hiding its secrets, nature simply exists at a level of magnificence that transcends our understanding, compelling us to explore and appreciate its wonders without attributing malice or trickery to its hidden depths.
In practice
This quote could be used in an environmental awareness speech to highlight the importance of respecting nature's complexity.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.
When you drink in nature through your senses, you deepen your awareness of the great silent intelligence flowing through all things. You nourish your mind, body, and spirit as you connect to the divine love of Being.
Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out.
The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to go now and again into places where our work is disallowed, where our hopes and plans have no standing. We need to come into the presence of the unqualified and mysterious formality of Creation.
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