Nature Quotes · Page 166

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

— George Eliot

To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.

— Jane Goodall

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

— Samuel Johnson

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

— Jerzy Kosinski

AIDS is nature's retribution for violating the laws of nature.

— Pat Buchanan

“the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city.”

— Stefan Zweig

The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.

— Alfred Armand Montapert

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. —Voltaire”

— Steven D. Price

This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

“Don't be so sure,' Cassie said. 'We're fighting for Mother Earth. She has some tricks up her sleeves.' 'Good grief,' Marco said.…

— Katherine Applegate

Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold…

— Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran

I went through the natural process that most actors go through. I brought myself out here, had an audition on a Wednesday;…

— Sean Mahon

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop.…

— Ann Patchett

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that…

— John Ruskin

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for…

— Thomas Aquinas

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Humans are by nature self-centered. It doesn’t matter how civilized or primitive they are. If they want something, they’ll find a way…

— Ednah Walters

See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course. Prayers cannot halt the…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“Concerning this desert, Jeremiah writes: ‘I will lead my beloved into the wilderness and will speak to her in her heart’ (Hosea…

— Meister Eckhart

One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive,…

— Georges Clemenceau

Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow…

— Neal Stephenson

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos…

— David Sedaris

Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making.

— Anonymous

Lord of the earth and the sky Lord the mountains so high Allah

— Rose

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

— Ang Lee

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

— J. I. Packer

“If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable”

— Ilyas Kassam

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

— Aldo Leopold

We all have a role to play in creating safe environments where everyone can be free to work without fear.

— Anna Wintour

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

— Empedocles

Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

— Matthew Henry

Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

— Stephenie Meyer

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

— Che Guevara

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

— Holbrook Jackson

You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.

— Dale Jamieson