Nature Quotes · Page 186

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“It is in the nature of men to do their best and deepest thinking when the sun’s going down.”

— R.C. Sherriff

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

— Anna Pavlova

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

— Johannes Kepler

I've collected John Ward pieces for years. Ward represents ideas of nature and of sediments.

— Jonathan Anderson

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

— Francis Bacon

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.

— George Farquhar

“Each of Tamlin’s movements was precise and efficient, his powerfully muscled legs eating up the earth”

— Sarah J. Maas

The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping…

— Gelsey Kirkland

Everybody has their time here on earth, use it wisely and stay away from people who like to use and abuse you...

— Anonymous

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the…

— Herodotus

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature;…

— Thomas Browne

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.

— Edmund Arthur Helps

We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that…

— Annie Dillard

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard…

— Emily Dickinson

Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality.…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Buddha is a precedent more than a prophet; and where Jesus came to earth as the way, the truth, and the life,…

— Anonymous

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“Yes. I—I can't help liking her—just a little bit! She's not an ungenerous nature; and I am so glad her difficulties have…

— Thomas Hardy

Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society,…

— William Hurrell Mallock

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind…

— Muriel Spark

“At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth; then we become static tombs in the brims…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of…

— Richard Wright

“he was helpless against his own devilish nature when it came to this girl”

— Julia Quinn

“If a man could make the earth heaven to get you, could also make it hell for you if he couldn't get…

— M.F. Moonzajer

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

— Napoleon Hill

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

— Hugh Hammond Bennett

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

— Archibald Alexander

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

— Laurence Sterne

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

— Cullen Hightower

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

— Alexander Pope

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

— John Muir

“When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.”

— Mary Shelley

You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.

— Valentina Zelyaeva

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings”

— John Gillespie MaGee Jr

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

— Walter Bagehot

No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.

— Guy Finley

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

— Eric Hoffer