Nature Quotes · Page 1,027

“Two weeks earlier than scheduled, she flew into Vancouver and signed on with Greenpeace. The work was neither taxing nor truly exciting…

— Nicholas Evans

We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are…

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

“Must be I find you tough and lusty as the life, all toil and tempo, finesse and plain fight, with values so…

— Diane Ackerman

“John Calvin said: "It is the nature of faith that we want to bring others to share eternal life with us when…

— Richard D. Phillips

“When the sweep of God's sickles brings final harvest to the earth, separating grain from grapes, the present system of power and…

— Dennis E. Johnson

She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this…

— Art Buchwald

Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it…

— Marjorie Harris

The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible…

— Wolfgang Pauli

I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear…

— Eric Kandel

“Nature is magic, Medea, and magic is nature. It is the rawest essence of our world, a power infused by the divine…

— Rosie Hewlett

“He was like . . . like . . . a magnet and I was metal and all the laws of nature…

— Kristen Ashley

Are you a slave to your self-centered nature or does your divine nature guide your life? Do you kow that every moment…

— Peace Pilgrim

“What does somebody like you want? More power? More toys? More sex?" "All of the above. All the time." "Greedy bugger." "Kid,…

— Karen Marie Moning

The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of…

— Immanuel Kant

And by reducing carbon pollution in our atmosphere, we are protecting our air, water, mountains, forests, deserts, valleys, coasts and rivers -…

— Ted Wheeler

One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance…

— Hubert Yockey

“He and Onno had once come to the conclusion that you had to decide for yourself whether after your death you wanted…

— Harry Mulisch

The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the…

— Alvin Lustig

“If you feel unhappy, sick or depressed, spend more time in nature and you will come to see the colors of life,…

— Jellis Vaes

“The Kingdom of Heaven is where God’s will is done. When God’s will is done on earth as it is in Heaven,…

— Dean Summers

“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded…

— Marcus du Sautoy

“The dark, twisting clouds that had settled over Vendona’s streets seemed to open up and glide past the winking moon. The wind…

— Shannon A. Thompson

“I realize now that drinking never solved my problem. How could it? It impairs the mind, fogs the senses, and diminishes other…

— Sukree Boodram

The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through…

— Charles Darwin

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy…

— Thomas Jefferson

Because I live in London I'm always at busy places like airports and gigs. When you're up in the mountains the air's…

— Limahl

“The journey simultaneously holds the contraries of solitary longing and relatedness to community, as Shaw tells us: “It’s an extraordinary, indigenous idea…

— Martin Shaw

“To make this journey, we'll need imagination but imagination alone is not enough because the reality of nature is far more wondrous…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I had come to Boyne City because I have always been drawn to nature's secrets more than to, say Hollywood's secrets or…

— Langdon Cook

“Art, she said, is more nuanced than life. If a teacher is lecturing and looking out of smudged windows, smeared with obscenities…

— Clark Blaise

How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience…

— David E. Cooper

“Things that accord in tone vibrate together. Things that have affinity in their inmost natures seek one another. Water flows to what…

— I-Ching

“The weaknesses of human nature appear more clearly in a storm than in the quiet flow of calmer times. Among the overwhelming…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill…

— Donella Meadows

In the heavens there is calmness and on the earth there is beauty. In the gardens there is freshness and in you…

— Hassan al-Banna

“Laugh away; I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry. I know,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A fire burns in the evening sky Breaking like an egg in a pan A sea of yellowish orange spreads In accordance…

— Justin Wetch