Nature Quotes · Page 184

An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

— Aeschines

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

— Leon Battista Alberti

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

— Peter De Vries

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

— Sri Aurobindo

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

— Winston Churchill

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

— Max Beerbohm

If life on earth is temporary , What makes you think that your problems are permanent ?

— Ritu Ghatourey

The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.

— Dean Koontz

“The amount of energy stored in all the fossil fuel on earth is negligible compared to the amount that the sun dispenses…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has…

— Franz Kafka

If people would only realize that if one leads a life in cooperation with Nature and not against it, then nobody in…

— Sufan Wyszynski

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that…

— John Irving

I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small,…

— Johannes Kepler

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

— Bridget Riley

I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking…

— Pablo Neruda

“These partisan beliefs can upset the equation in which more information will bring us closer to the truth. A recent study in…

— Nate Silver

“[T]he contradiction in Catholicism, that at the same time marriage is holy and celibacy is holy. This simply realises as a practical…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be…

— Maria Montessori

“She suddenly realized how much she loved the rain; loved the way it seemed like the sky was purging something it held…

— Abby Slovin

in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company…

— B. Kevin Turner

“A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the…

— Dag Hammarskjöld

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

— Gore Vidal

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

— C. S. Lewis

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

— Nouriel Roubini

He'd surely been spawned by some cataclysmic event of nature, not born.

— Karen Marie Moning

At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today?

— Robert Breault

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

— Jules Verne

“How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificence occurred by accident.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I've always tried to seek out environments with excitement.

— Kenneth Chenault

Being on a horse is one of my most natural places to be.

— Sinbad

Normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

— Martin Cruz Smith

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Shakespeare, the greatest of poets, was the greatest reader of Nature and life.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.

— Richard G. Scott

“Sooner or later, clockwork requires each piece to accept its nature or break. Hearts are no different.”

— Robert Appleton

As journalists we are sceptical by nature, but there are some things you take on trust.

— Gavin Esler

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

— Charles Kingsley