Nature Quotes · Page 260

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things…

— Peace Pilgrim

“It is possible for God to live in a man and for the man to still be useless.”

— Sunday Adelaja

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

— Raymond Carver

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“Nature has a myriad of weapons to combat human arrogance.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.

— Muhammad Ali

The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.

— Pope Francis

Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

— Francesca Lia Block

I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly…

— Tim Winton

Through the power which we win over the forces of nature we get also a gruesome kind of power over our fellow…

— Albert Schweitzer

Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.

— Bashar al-Assad

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels…

— Edward M. Lerner

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

— Thomas Merton

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

— John Hagee

In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

— Louise Penny

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

— Greg Kinnear

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it…

— Desiderius Erasmus

To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and…

— Thomas Browne

I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than…

— John Burroughs

“But you have to admit it is human nature to only really appreciate something if you’ve worked for it, or if you…

— Josephine Angelini

Nothing is sudden in nature: whereas the slightest storms are forecasted several days in advance, the destruction of the world must have…

— Nicolas Antoine Boulanger

“Oh for women at sea to obviate the eternal crosscat-harpings,' he said to himself, 'to do away with the grumlinfuttocks, and to…

— Patrick O'Brian

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of…

— Álvaro de Campos

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.

— Claude Bernard

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

— Albert Einstein

He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.

— Thomas Aquinas

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

— Marshall McLuhan

“You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment”

— Rex Stout

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature.

— Monica Bellucci

What's one less person on the face of the earth, anyway?

— Ted Bundy

I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

“Natura nihil agit frustra, [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputed Axiome in Philosophy.”

— Thomas Browne

I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.

— James Murphy

“I try to rely less and less on controlling nature. Instead I am learning to live with it's chaos.”

— David Mas Masumoto

“I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

— Josh Billings

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

— William Hazlitt