Nature Quotes · Page 223

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

“You can't blame human nature, and there was nothing more human than curiosity.”

— Stephen King

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

— Robert Montgomery

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

It's human nature for people to expect people to be what they see on the screen.

— Denis Leary

Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.

— Mike Murdock

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

— Polly Toynbee

“Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

— Stephen King

Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need…

— Ramana Maharshi

“There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate…

— Gregory of Nyssa

“As such, it was clear that its only purpose was to remind the arriving shoppers of nature and beauty—presumably the same nature…

— Aurelio Voltaire

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to…

— Swami Vivekananda

Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect.

— Edgar Cayce

We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are…

— Dalai Lama

In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science…

— Brigham Young

“And he feels hurt when he hears about wars, And commerce, and the ships leaving Their smoke on the high seas. Because…

— Alberto Caeiro

“Continually question climbing pursuits. Do they draw one back to the climbing community? Or do they lead along the [inner-directed] path? This…

— Jon Krakauer

Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and…

— Karen Armstrong

THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.…

— William Blackstone

“Predator bugs don't reproduce so fast, as a rule. But see, that works out right in nature because one predator eats a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

— Nina Fedoroff

“His coming was in the nature of a welcome disturbance; it seemed to furnish a new direction for her emotions.”

— Kate Chopin

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

— John Donne

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

— Richard Branson

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

— Edward Young

Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.

— Mary Baker Eddy

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The task for us now, if we are to survive, is to build the earth.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

— Georges Simenon

Sometimes, Nature has the tolerance than a mother,because we are always disturbing nature.

— Sumesh Nair

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

— Angela Merkel

“You are not put on this earth to see through people. You are put on this earth to see people through.”

— Gloria Vanderbilt

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

— Andrew Lo

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

— John Mayer

“Create a space that mimics the natural world—where your senses are awakened and your spirit can roam free.”

— Ken Breniman

Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.

— Robert Frost