Nature Quotes · Page 208

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair

— George Monbiot

Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.

— John Dryden

“We have a natural resentment toward government, which was how we were born”

— Aaron Sorkin

If you don't think your family is the best family on earth - don't be surprised if others don't either.

— Dr Angela Chester

“Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. – Luke 11:2”

— Robert J. Morgan

Its human nature. He, first of all, likes to do the work for which he is forbidden.

— Mak_786

“For it’s human nature even in the direst extremity to see a spark of hope and blow it into flames.”

— Leo Perutz

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

— Van Morrison

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint!…

— Robert Frost

“I marvelled about the nature of humanity, and how something as lovely as friendship could stem from something so hideous.”

— Wendy Higgins

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." [ Notebook , Oct. 10, 1842]”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

— Jimmy Cliff

Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And…

— Robert Muller

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records…

— Charles Sheeler

“Merciful Heavens! But what do I care for the laws of nature and arithmetic, when, for some reason I dislike those laws…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you…

— Matt Damon

“Everywhere I went in the wild corners of Hawaii, I found that the biology was as astonishing as the beauty. The landscapes…

— Cynthia Russ Ramsay

The history of mankind is the most bloody and predictable due to the nature of man. The reason we have honor, pride,…

— Melchor Lim

“But here’s the rub of addiction. By its nature, people afflicted are unable to do what, from the outside, appears to be…

— David Sheff

Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then,…

— Lucretius

There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books.…

— James Frey

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful!never came there unto them a revelation of the revelations of allah but they…

— Quran

A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour;…

— John Locke

We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after…

— John O'Donohue

I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.

— Kami Garcia

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.

— Marquis de Sade

“Service is the rent that we pay for our room on earth.”

— Lord Halifax

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

— Charles Lamb

Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.

— Rob Brezsny

No matter if you believe in God, the energy of the Universe or nature, just be humble to that power or entity.

— Enhance Dreams

Young leaves The sound of a waterfall Heard from far and near.

— Yosa Buson

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

— Shirley Williams

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

— Edward Abbey

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

— Joseph Hall

Have respect for mother nature, and she will respect you... By Chevy.

— Bryan N De Bruin

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

— Sheridan Smith

“Fog loves to cover; wind loves to disperse! Children of nature love having fun with each other!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

— Matthew Arnold

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

— Julie Benz

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

— Henry David Thoreau