Nature Quotes · Page 361

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

— Thomas Gray

“Surrender to your unruly nature and watch the miracles grow all around you.”

— Kris Franken

“I've discovered that having someone be in awe of you might just be the best possible feeling on earth.”

— Melissa Brown

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

— William Ellery Channing

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

— Winston Churchill

When you see the beautiful scene of nature, you get the best feeling ever.

— Patrick Ngetich

One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.

— Charles Fort

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

— Sol Hurok

If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he…

— Greg Iles

When the light of the star which flows into my eyes as a drop of gold first pierced the darkness in space,…

— Naz?m Hikmet

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

— Laozi

It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

— Igor Stravinsky

There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance…

— Fyodor Tyutchev

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the…

— David Hume

My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and…

— Ed Begley, Jr

I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.

— Patch Adams

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can…

— Marcel Proust

“As Vivi drove, it seemed that not only the Ya-Ya's bodies but the earth and sky were sweating. The very air they…

— Rebecca Wells

“The imported discovery, that human nature is too good to be made better by discipline, that children are enticed from the right…

— Lyman Beecher

As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper…

— Walt Whitman

Nature is not here to keep you alive. It has just as many ways to kill you as it does to sustain…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We who are privileged to be in these chambers today can view the challenges we face as opportunities, not as reasons for…

— Tom McCall

We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful…

— Michel de Montaigne

Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving…

— Alfred Rosenberg

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

— Wallace Stevens

When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

— George Carlin

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

— Ayn Rand

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

— Carl Sandburg

“Happiness is our natural state of being that cannot be found in anything external.”

— Christopher Dines

The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky.”

— Ashley Madau

“Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.”

— Bryant McGill

When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile

— William Cowper

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

— Lin Yutang

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

— Edward Young

Last Saturday saw the moon at it biggest and brightest as it was in it's closest orbit to earth.

— Kyle MacDonald

“Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity.”

— Amit Ray

It was a great thing to grow up around the acting world and also question the transitory nature of it.

— Alice Eve

“We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.”

— Abraham Kaplan