Nature Quotes · Page 276

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

— Ovid

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

— Alan S. Kesselheim

Drying up of capital has different consequences in different environments.

— Naveen Tewari

It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.

— Dionysius of Halicarnassus

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

— Salma Hayek

“I wish nature's magical things with my little moist wings!!”

— Shasika Amali Munasinghe

The spiritual world is not unlike the natural world: only diversity will save it.

— Margot Adler

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

— Hattie McDaniel

It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the…

— John F. Carlson

“I’d walk to the ends of the earth hand in hand with Chace Keaton and all he had to do to get…

— Kristen Ashley

Nature uses extraordinarily ingenious techniques to avoid conflict and competition, and that cooperation is extraordinarily widespread throughout all of nature

— Joseph Addison

“Our lives on earth aren’t just placeholders until we go to heaven. We are to create, cultivate, and redeem while we’re here.…

— Jefferson Bethke

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

— Plato

This is the residue of sin on planet earth. Things are broken. People are hurting. The night is here. Darkness is upon…

— Louie Giglio

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your…

— Tennessee Williams

“Nature will always be natural, the tutor had told me. For what is ever not natural? Even lies are just a kind…

— Miranda Mellis

But Russians, in their very nature, it seems, pass quickly from the highest enthusiam to complete dejection and distrust. They yield to…

— Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly…

— John Ruskin

I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel…

— Jan Morris

The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible…

— Simon Schama

“Korea has no natural resources and very little arable land. Compounding the problem is that labor costs have risen so dramatically in…

— Euny Hong

“Our ailing planet needs spiritual warriors, ones capable of standing up to the Western materialism machine, so we can create sustainable societies…

— Jonathan Talat Phillips

The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with…

— Maximus the Confessor

“In winter this town is freezing. You step out your door in the morning and the whole place looks like one of…

— Flynn Meaney

To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.

— Elvin Jones

Making love, underneath the cherry leaves. Baby girl, tell me how my nature feels.

— Frank Ocean

in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.

— Alan Weisman

Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.

— Walter J. Phillips

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.

— Nikki Grimes

“Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.”

— Immanuel Kant

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

— Ian Mcewan

To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

— Xenophanes

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

— Oswald Spengler

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

— Jim Fowler

“Predation is so fundamental to nature that it seems absurd to demonize it for any animal, including humans.”

— Jackson Landers

To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have

— Phil Harding

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

— Lady Gregory

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

— William Faulkner

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

— Joseph Addison