Nature Quotes · Page 1,072

To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice…

— Eric Hoffer

All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last…

— Anonymous

Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All…

— Walt Whitman

“Many Christians, including BioLogos, like to throw out the "you can't take the Bible literally" argument. They think it is the ultimate…

— G.M. Jackson

“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of…

— Rachel Carson

“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it,…

— John Stuart Mill

There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and…

— Ernst Boris Chain

“We live, all of us, in sprung rhythm. Even in cities, folk stir without knowing it to the surge in the blood…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

Because its myriad glimmering plumes Like a great army's stir and wave; Because its golden billows blooms, The poor man's barren walks…

— Lucy Larcom

We are designed with a dreaming brain and a hopeful spirit; it is our nature to envision the life of our dreams.…

— Anonymous

True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next…

— William Powers

Black people are on earth for one purpose: to destroy, and not to build. The reason: It's not in them to show…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

I would love to have Scored Pulp Fiction or Scarface, or Movies of that nature. Cube was just talking to me. Actually…

— Dr Dre

his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water,…

— Paul Hawken

Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in…

— Immanuel Kant

“he could feel the earth beneath, all the deep stone of it, cool and hard near the surface of the earth, but…

— Orson Scott Card

Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth…

— Pablo Neruda

We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything,…

— Jacque Fresco

“In a world of seven billion people, where every inch of land has been mapped, much of it developed, and too much…

— James Nestor

We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen…

— Sadie Jones

“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to…

— Jon Krakauer

“— What were you thinking about, child? — I was thinking of heaven. — It’s unnecessary for you to think of heaven:…

— Comte de Lautréamont

“In lieu of letting go of our trauma and rather than healing completely, in my experience, we learn how to carry it…

— L.M. Browning

“She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented beauty -…

— Richard Louv

Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“but in Heaven we will have total peace We will be completely changed when we get to Heaven—and so, too, will those…

— Billy Graham

“The mess that's emerging...at least reflects the truth of my experience, the fact that every contemplation is interrupted, and that every interruption…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“Do you think that a doe in the jaws of a tiger feels less horror than you? People thought up the idea…

— Milan Kundera

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other…

— Anonymous

How can we stop our feelings? It's only Natural Love comes in different ways same too in Hurt! One has to be…

— Glen Rambharack

“Most surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day, and the…

— Anonymous

“3. The Law of Balance. Nature governs the world with her law of balance. She puts things ever in pairs,[FN#216] and leaves…

— Kaiten Nukariya

All endings are inexorably tied to new beginnings. That's the nature of the journey. It continues to unfold. It builds on itself.…

— Melody Beattie

“I’ll tell you this, if he gives me one more order with that W word again, I’m going to divorce him before…

— Jacquelyn Frank

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That…

— Cheryl Strayed

The forces of things, the beings of the Universe, interpenetrate, divide and unite themselves according to eternal laws. But the laws of…

— Heinrich Zschokke

But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends…

— Empedocles

If you think you're too far from Allah to return, and your 'past' continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn…

— Yasmin Mogahed

I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates…

— Tom Hanks