Nature Quotes · Page 308

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

— Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment.

— Rob Lowe

Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

— Emily Dickinson

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

— Janine Benyus

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

— Robert Anton Wilson

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

— Fernando Botero

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

— Kenneth R. Miller

When you're in nature, when you're going to bed when the sun goes down and getting up when the sun rises, and…

— Perrey Reeves

“Mary, in these days, simply couldn't see that he was on the earth. She looked round him, above him, and through him,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

If someone hurts you, don't mind because its the law of nature that tree that bears the sweetest fruit, gets the maximum…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“When we go back as far as possible to the origins we find a human nature which already contains everything which it…

— Herman Bavinck

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

This earth, burnished by hearing the name, is so certain of love, that the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own…

— Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but…

— John Dewey

“Leaf, branch, vine, bramble. The rush of air in my ears. The rapid-fire scuffscuffscuff of my shoes on the trail. Shards of…

— RIch Yancy

I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred…

— Edvard Munch

To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature,…

— Bodhidharma

Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“There was a stirring among the watching women. One came forward holding a chalice that was like thin leaves turned to green…

— A. Merritt

What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle…

— Caspar David Friedrich

“When man chooses to develop his innate power of communication with nature and therefore hear the voice, all will be right with…

— Ralph Helfer

“There is the moment when the silence of the countryside gathers in the ear and breaks into a myriad of sounds:a croaking…

— Italo Calvino

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

— Publilius Syrus

I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

— Robert Frost

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

— Isaac Barrow

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.

— Karen Russell

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.

— Gretel Ehrlich

Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive

— Pablo Neruda

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense.

— Robert Graham

Sometimes we can get extraordinary results by going against our instinctive human nature

— Senoraroy

If there is a heaven, it must be here on earth because the earth is so beautiful.

— Emile Gruppe

The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family.

— Steve Fowler

“The world is ‘charging’ by nature itself. The ‘discharge’ part is just a ‘reaction’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

— Richard Louv

“Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically[.]”

— Will Durant

“Nothing prevents us being natural so much as the desire to appear so.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

— Mason Cooley