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Best Quotes About Nature (Top 100)
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus -
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein -
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.
Kate Chopin -
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes -
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
George Carlin -
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel Carson -
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike -
The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron -
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Anne Frank -
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir -
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...
Henry David Thoreau -
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde -
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
Walt Whitman -
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
Rachel Carson -
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Muir -
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
Marilyn Monroe -
The mountains are calling and I must go.
John Muir -
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu -
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Charles Dickens -
Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.
Brian Jacques -
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Garrison Keillor -
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".
John Muir -
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran -
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry -
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke -
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
John Muir -
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats -
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle -
The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.
Christopher Paolini -
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
Bill Watterson -
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein -
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley -
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman -
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake -
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking -
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell -
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry -
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Gary Snyder -
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein -
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir -
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin -
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville -
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire -
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams -
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin -
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
John Muir -
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
Isaac Newton -
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Confucius -
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news
John Muir -
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey -
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln -
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
Wendell Berry -
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth -
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.
John Muir -
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei -
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson -
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman -
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.
Gretel Ehrlich -
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie -
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin -
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams -
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
Immanuel Kant -
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic — the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.
Charles de Lint -
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir -
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James -
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne -
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
George Carlin -
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver -
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle -
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
Oscar Wilde -
If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton -
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Looking beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.
Amit Ray -
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
Harry Crews -
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa -
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire -
Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
May Sarton -
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
Euclid -
If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John Muir -
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Max Planck -
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman -
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman -
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel -
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked"as I am surprisingly often"why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Richard Dawkins -
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth -
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
Even More Nature Quotes
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.
Rachel Carson -
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.
Henry David Thoreau -
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana -
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland -
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl Sagan -
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward Abbey -
All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.
Louis Kahn -
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller -
Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.
Gene Hill -
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.
Edward Abbey -
Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
Jane Goodall -
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
Georgia O'Keeffe -
Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?
Bill Hicks -
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Oscar Wilde -
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie -
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
Anton Chekhov -
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road-the one "less traveled by"-offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
Rachel Carson -
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner -
Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus -
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
Swami Vivekananda -
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
Frank Herbert -
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold -
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
Walt Whitman -
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
Benjamin Franklin -
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
William Wordsworth -
Nature does nothing in vain.
Aristotle -
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch -
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman -
Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.
Linda Hogan -
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Scott Westerfeld -
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius -
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seattle -
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time. -Georgia O'Keeffe.
Georgia O'Keeffe -
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey -
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius -
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
John Muir -
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir -
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France -
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas Hobbes -
Nature is the art of God.
Dante Alighieri -
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams -
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen -
Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
Eberhard Arnold -
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs -
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher -
In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.
Alistair Cooke -
The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.
Albert Schweitzer -
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
Rachel Carson -
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.
Andy Goldsworthy -
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
Gregory Bateson -
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
Sigmund Freud -
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Dogen -
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs -
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.
Aldo Leopold -
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
Ernest Shackleton -
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce -
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
Audrey Hepburn -
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle -
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Bob Dylan -
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin -
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
William Wordsworth -
Water is the driving force of all nature.
Leonardo da Vinci -
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
Diane Arbus -
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank -
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
Gaston Bachelard -
The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.
Gifford Pinchot -
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Matsuo Basho -
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith -
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O'Keeffe -
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
Aldo Leopold -
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter -
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise
Aldo Leopold -
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke -
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore -
It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.
Daniel Quinn -
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.
Aldo Leopold -
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir -
In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams -
As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?
Guru Nanak -
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
Kate Chopin -
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev -
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin -
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
Julian Barnes -
If people were superior to animals, they'd take good care of them," said Pooh.
Benjamin Hoff -
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.
Mikhail Gorbachev -
We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold -
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
Albert Einstein -
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates -
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler -
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock -
A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.
Lord Dunsany -
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
Rupert Brooke -
Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.
Gary Snyder -
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen -
Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.
John Burroughs -
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit—some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.
Loren Eiseley -
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey -
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein -
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson -
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
Robert Burns -
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca -
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
Edwin Way Teale -
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza -
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald -
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Charlotte Whitton -
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin -
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Carl Linnaeus -
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Orson Welles -
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.
Diane Ackerman -
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
Cyrano de Bergerac -
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Albert Einstein -
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey -
And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke -
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
E. e. cummings -
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
John Muir -
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Chief Seattle -
Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
Lorraine Anderson -
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.
Ed Viesturs -
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
Max Planck -
It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.
Eleanor Farjeon -
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo -
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Carl Sandburg -
Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.
Edwin Way Teale -
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland -
Choose only one master - Nature.
Rembrandt -
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval -
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall -
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
Edwin Way Teale -
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
Ivan Turgenev -
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.
Fritjof Capra -
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
Llewelyn Powys -
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
John James Audubon -
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold -
This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature's laws?
Max Planck -
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
Antoine Lavoisier -
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Robert Redford -
To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.
Barry Lopez -
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Milan Kundera -
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
Georgia O'Keeffe -
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal -
I am two with nature.
Woody Allen -
All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.
Judith Anderson -
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius -
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz -
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...
Elizabeth Goudge -
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
George W. Bush -
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea Ballou -
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
Ellis Peters -
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
Alexander Herzen -
Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
Louis D. Brandeis -
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Alice Walker -
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
Alfred Austin -
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore -
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
Stewart Udall -
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert -
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin -
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
Linda Hogan -
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
Debbie Harry -
Men argue. Nature acts.
Voltaire -
The imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace Stevens -
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain -
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
Mark Twain -
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
Andrew Bernstein -
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
Juvenal -
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
Ovid -
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir -
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Henri Poincare -
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates -
To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.
William O. Douglas -
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
Edward O. Wilson -
One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.
Thomas Paine -
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -
And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.
Art Buchwald -
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Maria Mitchell -
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul Cezanne -
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.
Terry Pratchett -
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire -
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France -
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell -
If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
Bernie Siegel -
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Henrik Tikkanen -
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
George Washington Carver -
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
Joseph Conrad -
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
John Fowles -
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith -
I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.
Mariah Carey -
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Joseph Wood Krutch -
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Aldo Leopold -
You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.
Peter Marshall -
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot -
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell -
The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.
Carl Hubbell -
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
Spike Milligan -
Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.
Mae West -
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
Taslima Nasrin -
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
Henri Poincare -
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries -
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Bronte -
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
Carl Linnaeus -
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
John Cheever -
I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.
Adeline Knapp -
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Richard M. Nixon -
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
Frank Wilczek -
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
George Washington Carver -
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
John Milton -
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Margaret Fuller -
Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle -
Colors are the smiles of nature.
Leigh Hunt -
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin Luther -
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
William Howard Taft -
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
Ovid -
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Leon Battista Alberti -
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
Camille Paglia -
Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
Robin Williams -
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
Ethan Allen -
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther -
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
David Hare -
Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.
Henry Beston -
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon -
Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
Hamlin Garland -
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne -
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel Johnson -
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine -
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
John Cage -
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.
Clifford Geertz -
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Joseph Wood Krutch -
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
Thomas Fuller -
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau -
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton -
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments?
John Constable -
There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
Chief Seattle -
Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
Lindsay Lohan -
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot -
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing -
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
George Bernard Shaw -
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith -
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer -
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
James Anthony Froude -
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane Austen -
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
Logan Pearsall Smith -
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.
Henry Moore -
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James -
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
Barry Commoner -
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
William Lyon Phelps -
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
Eugene Wigner -
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet -
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Luigi Pirandello -
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.".
Robert Byrne -
Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.
Ansel Adams -
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Giambattista Vico -
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau -
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
Abraham Cowley -
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Joseph Wood Krutch -
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
John James Audubon -
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
Walter Lang -
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland -
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
Luther Burbank -
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Benjamin Haydon -
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
Alan Chadwick -
I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.
Courtney Love -
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Will Durant -
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood Krutch -
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale -
Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson -
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
Dorothy Thompson -
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
Louis Nizer -
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein -
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Walter Savage Landor -
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin -
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard -
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
Joseph McCabe -
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
Ian McHarg -
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
Maurice Maeterlinck -
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.
Lew Wallace -
We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.
Gaylord Nelson -
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.
Edward Teller -
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving -
Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.
Kathleen Raine -
Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
Al Bernstein -
One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.
Barry Lopez -
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
Immanuel Kant -
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon -
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard -
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
Camille Paglia -
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
John Paul Jones -
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine -
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker -
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller -
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Havelock Ellis -
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Thorstein Veblen -
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Aeschylus -
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie -
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
Edwin Way Teale -
When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.
Raoul Dufy -
I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
Will Rogers -
You are one of the forces of nature.
Jules Michelet -
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
Joseph Wood Krutch -
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C. Clarke -
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
John Coltrane -
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt -
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
Jean Ingelow -
The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred Adler -
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
Alexander Pope -
National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.
Jacques Chirac -
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Laurence Sterne -
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov -
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Guillaume Apollinaire -
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
Francis Picabia -
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Joseph Addison -
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey -
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
Elizabeth Smart -
During the time that [Karl] Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of imununology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the serologic problem in very different ways. He would ask, What do these experiments force us to believe about the nature of the world? I would ask, What is the most. simple and general picture of the world that we can formulate that is not ruled by these experiments? I realized that medical and biological investigators were not attacking their problems the same way that theoretical physicists do, the way I had been in the habit of doing.
Linus Pauling -
He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
Lucy Larcom -
The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.
Lewis Thomas -
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
Alex Noble -
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia -
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
Johannes Kepler -
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
E. F. Schumacher -
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
Carson McCullers -
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Johannes Kepler -
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle -
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
Northrop Frye -
Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
David Gerrold -
Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
Doug Larson -
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia -
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
John Muir -
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Lynd -
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
Thomas Hood -
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing -
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison -
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
Brigham Young -
Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being.
Donald Curtis -
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.
Theodore Roethke -
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Charles Dudley Warner -
Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
Dorothy Parker -
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
Denis Diderot -
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset -
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet -
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John Ruskin -
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
John Muir -
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
Alex Trebek -
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
John Heywood -
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Thomas Campbell -
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
Primo Levi -
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
Henri Matisse -
I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
Isak Dinesen -
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Cyril Connolly -
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
John Wesley Powell -
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Woody Allen -
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes -
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
Ludwig von Mises -
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim
Cyril Connolly -
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Robert Green Ingersoll -
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
Charles Kingsley -
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher -
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh -
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.
Muriel Spark -
I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
Margery Allingham -
This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
Du Fu -
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia -
When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away
Stewart Brand -
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Sallust -
The course of Nature is the art of God.
Edward Young -
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.
James Bryce -
In Montana, a policeman will pull you over because he is lonely.
Rich Hall -
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
Patrick Young -
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
James Whistler -
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
Brendan Gill -
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
Frank Moore Colby -
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
Clare Boothe Luce -
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Jose Ortega y Gasset -
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin -
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.
John Hay -
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
August Strindberg -
There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.
Alfred Russel Wallace -
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold -
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne -
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice.
Algernon Sidney -
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
William S. Burroughs -
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.
Christian Wiman -
Trees are your best antiques
Alexander Smith -
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Lord Chesterfield -
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.
James Beattie -
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave.
Ellen Willis -
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
William Ellery Channing -
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Buddha -
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West -
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.
Gerard De Nerval -
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
Lewis Mumford -
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
Edwin Booth -
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper -
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
Helen Rowland -
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Denis Diderot -
This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.
George Bernard Shaw -
Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.
Richard Selzer -
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
Alice James -
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
William Arthur Ward -
The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
Tom Arnold -
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.
Annie Dillard -
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch -
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
Barry Mann -
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh -
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm de Chazal -
There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge....
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
Robert Bork -
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
Johann Kaspar Lavater -
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri -
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
Eric Johnston -
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
Thomas More -
After rain comes fair weather.
James Howell -
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
Alan Kay -
A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts " a 'bundle of facts.' Things do not act in a particular way because there is a law, but we state the 'law' because they act in that way.
Joseph McCabe -
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
Peggy Noonan -
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
Barbara de Angelis -
Nature has always had more force than education.
Voltaire -
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
Joseph Joubert -
Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin -
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
Henry Fuseli -
What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.
Harry A. Blackmun -
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Paul Klee -
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist
Edgar Allan Poe -
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Edith Hamilton -
You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.
Denise Levertov -
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Erma Bombeck -
As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.
Stephen Graham -
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
James Carswell -
Human nature is not of itself vicious.
Thomas Paine -
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
Charles Darwin -
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
Ernest Renan -
A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
James Bryce -
Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
James Q. Wilson -
The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
Abraham Cowley -
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.
E. Merrill Root -
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
George Santayana -
Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.
Carolus Linnaeus -
What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.
Leonard Cohen -
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe -
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
William Lyon Phelps -
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us
Albert Einstein -
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux -
My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
Anthony Bourdain -
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
Bliss Carman -
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Dan Quayle -
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.
Luther Burbank -
I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.
John Shirley -
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
Jeremy Collier -
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
Michael Caine -
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
Voltaire -
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
John Dewey -
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
Elbert Hubbard -
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
Benjamin Franklin -
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer -
When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
Robert Burns -
It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.
Alice Childress -
My dream is to save them from nature.
Christian Dior -
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.
Lydia M. Child -
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
Lord Chesterfield -
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
Alice Meynell -
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
Charles Lindbergh -
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana -
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.
Edward Noyes Westcott -
Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.
Alan Bullock -
I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.
Daisy Ashford -
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison -
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint Augustine -
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
Alexander Pope -
We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.
Joseph Chilton Pearce -
A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.
Randolph Bourne -
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin -
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
James Allen -
Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It is now a global scourge. And you have the ascendancy of ISIL. The combination of those two groups — their appeal to the lone wolfs and we see them acting in Belgium and in France and in Canada and the United States so the threat factors and the nature of the threats are far more complicated and far more serious today than on September 12, 2001.
Tom Ridge -
The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
Morris K. Udall -
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de Montaigne -
People must help one another; it is nature's law.
Jean de La Fontaine -
Nature is not human hearted.
Lao Tzu -
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Hal Boyle -
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Abraham Lincoln -
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Rudyard Kipling -
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
Marianne Moore -
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau -
Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.
Gil Stern -
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature
Auguste Rodin -
It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.
Oswald Spengler -
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
Socrates -
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir -
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
Leonardo da Vinci -
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
Samuel Rutherford -
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Edgar Z. Friedenberg -
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Philip James Bailey -
Man must go back to nature for information.
Thomas Paine -
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."
Maya Angelou -
To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.
Mark Sullivan -
Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.
Dave Foreman -
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Laurence Housman -
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
Bertrand Russell -
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau -
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
William Penn -
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice Walker -
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
Anthony Burgess -
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
Julius Caesar -
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln -
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.
Henry David Thoreau -
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Francois Rabelais -
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Ansel Adams -
Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.
William Shakespeare -
If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.
William S. Burroughs -
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Denis Diderot -
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
Michelangelo -
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
William Hazlitt -
Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
John Milton -
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind
Herbert Spencer -
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
Matthew Arnold -
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke -
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
Marcelene Cox -
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
William Cowper -
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno -
It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.
Enrico Caruso -
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release â out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?
Carl Sandburg -
Nature is wont to hide herself.
Heraclitus -
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Walter Savage Landor -
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan -
My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature".
Albert Einstein -
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
Aristotle -
I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
Aristotle -
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Emma Goldman -
To him who in the love of Nature holdsCommunion with her visible forms, she speaksA various language.
William Cullen Bryant -
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.
Albert Einstein -
By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
Carlos Fuentes -
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Agnes Repplier -
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges — battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.
Billy Graham -
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs -
there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams -
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
Phillips Brooks -
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran -
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson -
A flower is an educated weed.
Luther Burbank -
The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
Thomas Heywood -
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Desiderius Erasmus -
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Henry David Thoreau -
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.
Ronald Reagan -
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
Ronald Reagan -
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them
Niccolo Machiavelli -
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
Camille Paglia -
It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
Charles Churchill -
Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats.
Woody Allen -
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
Diane Ackerman -
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
Peter Ustinov -
I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers
Woody Allen -
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
Deepak Chopra -
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden -
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw -
What is art? Nature concentrated.
Honore de Balzac -
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon