Nature Quotes · Page 1,038

I do not believe there is any such sixth sense. A man with a good sense of direction is, to me, quite…

— Harold Gatty

“…Yes, San Francisco was far from all I longed to forget. But I was weary of the flat earth, the heat of…

— Schoenewaldt

“They are simply numbers and cannot thus be right or wrong [...] What I trust that I am saying is that all…

— Neil Gaiman

“The secularizing 'values' and events that have been predicted would happen in the Muslim world have now begun to unfold with increasing…

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens…

— Jeff Schweitzer

... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the…

— Anonymous

“We have this distinctly human concept of good and bad. Nature doesn't have that. It just is. I'm not comfortable with that.…

— Joe Hutto

All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind…

— John Africa

The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar:…

— William Buckland

“today it threatens to make me late for my appointment. I always aim to arrive early because, by nature I’m disorganized, so…

— Arianne Richmonde

I have always gone to nature, since I was a kid. I was brought up in the woods, I did not have…

— David LaChapelle

I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against…

— Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

“FORD SAID, "I'LL BELT THE EARTH WITH DEPENDABLE MOTOR CARS," AND HE DID! His decision to trust his own judgment has already…

— Napoleon Hill

There is always a destiny A divine force created you and destined you to live. Your destiny is to exist and to…

— Janet Peave

Ok don't even try to get me started about tryin to be friends I didn't like you in the first place when…

— Memyselfand I

“New political systems and philosophies were imported into the Near East under the general term democracy and grafted artificially into a society…

— Gerald De Gaury

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with…

— Steven Curtis Chapman

I think that as an individual and as individuals in general, if we can't leave the earth feeling like we left something…

— Jerome Ringo

“The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true…

— Israel Zangwill

“The remarkable thing was that everyone accepted the entire process, seemingly as normal as physical laws of nature, despite the fact that…

— Tom Clancy

“In glades they meet skull after skull/Where pine-cones lay--the rusted gun,/Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat/And cuddled-up skeleton;/And scores of…

— Herman Melville

For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring…

— Thomas Merton

“Pommes de Terre” The plow; the raw September earth; the massive-haunched and mighty-hoofed old bay clomping and farting down the furrow; Father…

— Edward Abbey

The youth of the ANC, ever since 1944 when it was established, has been very vocal. It has made suggestions on things…

— Jacob Zuma

Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is…

— Germaine Greer

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in…

— Thomas Jefferson

“looked over to where I had dropped my net. There it was right where I had dropped it; wide open and not…

— Wilson Rawls

The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Death gives a reason to our lives. More important then that, death creates a special value for time. If our time on…

— Marilena Chauí

To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“We know the prodigality of Nature. How many acorns are scattered for one that grows to an oak? And need she be…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“If thou art worn and hard beset, With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget; If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The earth left to its own natural fertility and covered with immense woods, that no hatchet ever disfigured, offers at every step…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I…

— Hal Borland

“Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top full…

— William Shakespeare

“We are but beginners now in spiritual education; for although we have learned the first letters of the alphabet, we cannot read…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry…

— Calvin Coolidge