Nature Quotes · Page 191

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

— Geoffrey Chew

“We are put on this earth for a purpose and it isn't to serve ourselves.”

— Karen Beaudin

I think having pets helps sensitize people to the natural world.

— Glenn Close

The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.

— Mooji

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

— Jane Fonda

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.

— Gautama Buddha

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

— Joseph Addison

“It is unfortunate that many people today cannot sense the worth in people.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There is a lot of California in my... sound, and a ton of it is the laid-back nature of Southern Californians and…

— Brett Young

Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“I have no use for divine patience - My lips are now burning and everywhere. I am running from every corner of…

— شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez

Purpose of the natural calamities are coming to understand symbolic language except.You are not tutors except some of toys

— Mak_786

The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of…

— Gilbert F. White

“He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a…

— William A. Phillips

No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and…

— Roger Bannister

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help…

— David Suzuki

(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth…

— Lucretius

Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent…

— George MacDonald

“We are here to witness the creation and abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed.…

— Annie Dillard

Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by…

— Annie Besant

We don't set out to be polarizing. But just by the nature of what we've always done, it seems to have a…

— Ron Mael

“the story the Psalms tell is the story Jesus came to complete. It is the story of the creator God taking his…

— N.T. Wright

Late April and you are three; today We dug your garden in the yard. To curb the damage of your play, Strange…

— W. D. Snodgrass

“I would move the earth to save your mother. D'ye hear me, Sarah? I would tear down the walls of her jail…

— Kathleen Kent

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

— Thomas Merton

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

— Roger L'Estrange

“It was the world of the abyss, supposedly as lifeless as the earth’s first midnight.”

— Loren Eiseley

“hailed the Florentine as the first modern thinker to have exposed the nature of political tyranny.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.

— Adoniram Judson Gordon

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you.

— Morihei Ueshiba

“...irresponsibility was something which, in the very nature of things, could not co-exist with independence.”

— C.S. Forester

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

— Saint Augustine

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

— H. P. Blavatsky

“I will do such things,-- What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be The terrors of the earth.”

— Shakespeare, William

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

— Philip Sidney

“We think we are in sync with our environment, but actually it’s at war with us.”

— Marshall Goldsmith

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

— Lord Byron

No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

— Joss Whedon

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

— George Washington