Nature Quotes · Page 355

“Humboldt wrote that nature had to be experienced through feelings”

— Andrea Wulf

“He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but a looking glass.”

— James Allen

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

— Bruce Lipton

If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.

— Jane Goodall

It is the same to me, whether I rot in the air or in the ground. The earth is the Lord's.

— Andrew Melville

[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth.

— Joseph Stalin

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or…

— Jack Kevorkian

“You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“Living things are restrained by chains. The laws of nature, the flow of time, the vessel known as your “body”, and the…

— CLAMP

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about…

— Masanobu Fukuoka

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

— John Burroughs

“proceeds from the conviction that if the individual temporarily abandons human will and so allows himself to be guided by nature,”

— Larry Korn

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature…

— Wilkie Collins

“Ten thousand years ago, humans plus their pets and livestock accounted for about 0.1% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass inhabiting the earth;…

— Daniel J. Levitin

One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which…

— Howard Whitley Eves

“The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy,…

— Susan Sontag

“If there isn't a natural explanation and there doesn't seem to be the potential of finding one, then I believe it's appropriate…

— Walter L. Bradley

During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling…

— Stephen Covey

And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing…

— Donald Miller

“The oldest, easiest to swallow idea was that the earth was man's personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault, and…

— Lewis Thomas

“So I had nothing to distract me from my books and their other worlds that swallowed me whole, from Narnia to the…

— Luisa Weiss

“Socialism is the fantastic younger brother of almost decrepit despotism, which it wants to succeed; its efforts are, therefore, in the deepest…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.

— Janine Benyus

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

— Anonymous

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

— Patricia Arquette

Charlotte's Web Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.

— Jonas Salk

“There is in our natures a calamitous hunger for consummation.”

— Clive Barker

An honest, open environment can bring out the best in people.

— Pierre Omidyar

Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

— Jacques Prevert

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

— William Wordsworth

“The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (pg. 52).”

— Ayn Rand

The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

— Mason Cooley

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

— Marshall McLuhan

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

— C. A. Bartol

It would be against my nature if I shouted or banged the walls.

— Raphael Varane

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

— Langston Hughes

When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.

— Rudolf Steiner

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

— David Foster Wallace