Nature Quotes · Page 216

“Happiness is our natural state of being that cannot be found in anything external.”

— Christopher Dines

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

— Carl Sandburg

Last Saturday saw the moon at it biggest and brightest as it was in it's closest orbit to earth.

— Kyle MacDonald

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

— Edward Young

To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself.

— Masaru Emoto

Viewing the earth from above gives you this sense of how special the planet is that we live on.

— Peggy Whitson

“We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.”

— Abraham Kaplan

It was a great thing to grow up around the acting world and also question the transitory nature of it.

— Alice Eve

“To you, it may seem like an endless maze of paths, but to us, we are traveling through the veins of Earth.…

— Virginia Mary

The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

— Jack McDevitt

“To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No Come play with me; Why should you run Through the shaking tree As though I'd a gun…

— W.B. Yeats

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say…

— Niels Bohr

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the…

— P.D. Ouspensky

I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets…

— Philip Pearlstein

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

— Carolyn Parkhurst

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels…

— Camille Paglia

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we…

— Ernest Becker

“I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such…

— Alexander Hamilton

I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the…

— Louis Agassiz

My natural bent is to have an overabundance of energy, and motion-capture essentializes your every breath, your every move. Seeing yourself through…

— Andy Serkis

As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from…

— Celia Thaxter

“Pretty people do ugly things. It was one of those laws of nature that Gaia had understood for years. If she ever…

— Francine Pascal

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of…

— James Jeans

“Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief.…

— C. JoyBell C

“Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity.”

— Amit Ray

Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.

— Camille Paglia

The earth has Fates all her own. The earth has purpose. And we can only partially know what that purpose is.

— Jane Caputi

I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics.

— Milton Friedman

“Why doubt yourself due to the mere opinions of fellow humans who, also, by nature, doubt themselves?”

— Selin Senol-Akin

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed by the deep inner needs of our nature.

— Sigmund Freud

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study nature,” become at last one maxim.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion

— Michael J Tucker

The poorest person on earth is the person without faith.

— Myles Munroe

“Someone’s life is always in danger. That’s the nature of tyranny." -Mrak”

— S.G. Night

“Out of doors one becomes abstract and impersonal.One's individuality absolutely leaves one.”

— oscar wilde

Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein

— Anonymous

“Love is nature’s way of clouding our common sense so we breed first and ask questions later.”

— H.L. Burke

I love her but I wouldn't marry her if she [Kate Moss] was the last woman on earth.

— Pete Doherty