Quotes by Schreiner, Olive

Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of mea >>

There was never a great man who had not a great mother. >>

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should >>

Quotations about Nature

The unnatural, that too is natural. >>

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. >>

The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it w >>

From our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cloud, the amount of wool that grows on a sheep's back, the length of a drought, and the growing of the corn, depend on nothing that moves immutable, at the heart of all things; but on the changeable will of a changeable being, whom our prayers can alter. To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not. Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is --the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

Schreiner, Olive