Nature Quotes · Page 309

Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

— Ronald Reagan

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

— Fred Hoyle

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

— Louis Diat

The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.

— Mason Cooley

In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.

— Hugh MacDiarmid

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

— Charles Lindbergh

The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.

— Kristoffer Rygg

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness,…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Thus to seek with ready-made concepts to penetrate into the inmost nature of things is to apply to the mobility of the…

— Henri Bergson

I don't even know what my natural colour is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally…

— Donatella Versace

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

— Ricardo Semler

I believe each life has value and that we're on this earth to leave it better than how we found it. I…

— Stewart D. Friedman

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to…

— Amanda Donohoe

My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up…

— Charles Moore

“A bunch of people known as politicians are not going to change anything, for they themselves are second-hand humans, living second-hand lives,…

— Abhijit Naskar

Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly…

— Lord Chesterfield

“It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either…

— Wendell Berry

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of…

— Ambrose Bierce

“On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love any other…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me -…

— George Carlin

“This was the absolute last woman on earth he should want—she was trouble, in so many ways. She was troubled, and that…

— Shiloh Walker

No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical…

— Terence McKenna

“Yet such was the nature of their journey: maddeningly difficult and delightfully dangerous.”

— Aubrie Nixon

“Tonight the thoughts of the dead are turning back to the earth.”

— Joe Bousquet

Everyone's gonna die. It's a natural part of life. But if life has no purpose, you're dead already.

— BONES, Keiko Nobumoto, Toshitsugu Iida

“Your pitch should not feel like a pitch. It should feel like the natural next step in a helpful conversation.”

— Peter Holberg

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

— William Law

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

— John Galsworthy

... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?

— Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

We come from the earth. We come from the universe. We are special creatures, and we have magnificent powers.

— Justin Nozuka

But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

— John Milton

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.

— Henry Van Dyke

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

— Alexander Hamilton

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

— Kirk Douglas

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

— Victor Hugo

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

“All the stones that are around here, each one has a language of its own. Even the earth has a song.”

— Wallace Black Elk Lakota

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

— Laozi