Nature Quotes · Page 389

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

— Louis Agassiz

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

— Alfred North Whitehead

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

— Hans Hofmann

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."

— Milton Friedman

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

— Christopher Pike

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

— Confucius

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

— Marquis de Sade

My daughter gets a lot of her natural music ability from her mother because she's a world-class singer, also.

— Ron Cephas Jones

“Thus natural science is not a way of knowing the real world; its value lies not in its truth but in its…

— R.G. Collingwood

“Happiness is the natural state for most people whenever they feel healthy, have flexible schedules, and expect the future to be good.”

— Anonymous

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high…

— Laozi

“Every challenge that will ever face any man answers to the authority of the supernatural, and you as a believer are a…

— David O. Oyedepo

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired…

— Henry David Thoreau

The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.

— Alessandro Michele

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be…

— Francis Bacon

The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The time of my departure is here. Place your hand gently on the soil beside my own, and feel the rumble of…

— Chuck Black

You're in the public eye and you get treated better than royalty, and then you're dropped down to earth with nothing. You…

— David Oakes

The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it…

— Philip Yancey

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love O Love! thou makest all things even In earth or heaven; Finding thy way through prison-bars Up to the stars; Or,…

— Sarah Flower Adams

The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature.  Mother Earth looks at us with such dull, soulless eyes, when the sunlight has died away…

— Jerome K. Jerome

That singular uncompromising nature I think is always quite attractive, not just for an actor to play, we're attracted to uncompromising people…

— James McAvoy

“Ah, the young! Always so convinced their problems are unique in nature and unique to themselves.”

— Anonymous

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

— George Eliot

…Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.

— Helen Keller

Herbalism is a religion of nature, representing a balance of head and heart.

— Michael Tierra

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

— Stella Gibbons

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,

— Bernie Krause

Happy Earth Day to someone who I'm fairly sure thinks global warming is a myth.

— Anonymous

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

— Hannibal

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

— Abraham Lincoln

I like girls that are down to earth, just like to have fun, and be themselves.

— Jacob Latimore

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

— Pierre Bonnard

“If we don't have time for masterpiece moments, the very reason we came to earth is being wasted on us.”

— Chieko N. Okazaki

“I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.”

— Jodi Picoult

The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it

— Ted Trueblood