Nature Quotes · Page 207

“The differences which come under the first head are those which Nature herself has set between man and man;”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

— A. E. Housman

“At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.”

— David Mitchell

No one is a natural - you have to work at being a natural.

— Greg Proops

[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.

— Martin Amis

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

— Hannah Arendt

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

— Thomas Hardy

“The nature of nature is simple,” said Victor looking Death in the eye. “Survive. That's it. Just survive. This is neither good…

— Allan Hatt

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person…

— Jo Coudert

“The Moon rules our emotional nature, how we react in situations, and what is needed in our lives to make us feel…

— Rosemary Breen

“A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the…

— Omar Khayyám

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of…

— William Hamilton

I've known that about myself, that I've had two sides: one that's pretty tactical, down to earth, aware. There's also a really…

— Kamasi Washington

I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the…

— Aron Ralston

“The debate of nature versus nurture is an old one. But it is off the mark. There is no nature versus nurture.…

— Bernd Heinrich

“When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his…

— Anton Chekhov

“There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains its…

— Henry David Thoreau

I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls…

— Ma Jian

I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Let us remember that, despite the tasteless fables in the Holy Writ -- Sodom and Gomorrah, for example -- Nature does not…

— Marquis de Sade

There have been plenty of experiences that I wished to write about but found them to be somewhat similar to each other.…

— Sudha Murty

It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

— Claude Monet

“Well, Gascon, I'm going to miss your long blue hair. How on earth will I find you in a crowd now?”

— Marianne Curley

Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death.

— Matthew Walker

“The skilled observer, not the machine, was the essence of conservation.”

— Robert M. Edsel

Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

— Norman Cousins

My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.

— Peter Coyote

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

— Socrates

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

— Juvenal

The largest humanitarian victory we can deliver is by wiping ISIS off the face of the earth.

— Lee Zeldin

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

— Mahavira

I'm not opposed to a fancy meal, but I'll take a picnic any day... food and nature? Sign me up.

— Ryan Paevey

Comets are what we are after because stars well stars just don't live long in the earth eyelids. - Loverboi

— Kenneth Melvin Jr

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

— Anonymous

It is always in my nature to work like you are going to be at the club forever, for your life.

— Mauricio Pochettino

Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

— Claudius Claudianus

Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will..

— Bruce C. Hafen