Nature Quotes · Page 243

Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

— Louise Erdrich

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

— Lucretius

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

— Samuel Butler

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

— Michael J Tucker

What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural.

— George Kukla

“Only by looking deeply into the nature of your fear can you find the way out.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

The heaven I witnessed was so pure, love-filled, and magnificent that I did not want to return to earth.

— Mary C. Neal

The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.

— Dallas Willard

As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.

— Paul P. Enns

American political scions evoke a central contradiction in our thinking. We believe - or say we do - in nurture, not nature.…

— Michael Beschloss

For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows…

— Paracelsus

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

— James Prescott Joule

See? Anger can be healthy. When the time comes–and it will come–remember that. And what I said. Embrace your powers–love yourself the…

— Meg Cabot

“Eve is a figure for the soul that each human should love. The commandment to be fruitful and multiply did not originally…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all…

— Adam Garcia

“It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to…

— Richard W. Kelly

Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for…

— Joseph Cook

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to…

— John Lennon

The entire force of the Conciliar revolt comes from the fact that it has apparently been imposed by the authority of the…

— John Lane

The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces…

— Hans Hofmann

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct…

— Paul Hawken

Forest restoration is a challenging and complex undertaking of raising young trees, transplanting them, and then cultivating them year in, year out…

— Kim Jong-un

“It was like a religious conversion for me. In fact, it’s kind of like sex—one of those things that everyone thinks they…

— Judith Ryan Hendricks

It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray…

— Prince Ea

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

— Democritus

“I want to find the place where the earth meets the sky.”

— Annelise Throckmorton

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

— Margaret Atwood

“To drink poison and deliver elixir is the first nature of a sapiens.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.

— Nancy Newhall

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.

— Robert Smithson

I didn't have any natural instincts toward heading. It cost me lots of opportunities to score.

— Christen Press

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

— Eric Hoffer

In Montana, a policeman will pull you over because he is lonely.

— Rich Hall

“...there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”

— Herman Melville

“In school, you get a paid education. In nature, you get a free education.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the indifferent eyes of nature only the fit survive. On the other hand, God favors whoever He sees fit.

— Starhawk

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

— Fran Lebowitz

“When he touches me, the sky and the earth switch places.”

— Autumn Doughton