Nature Quotes · Page 414

The Lord created medicines from the earth, and a sensible man will not despise them

— Bible

To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.

— Jane Goodall

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

— Jerzy Kosinski

An old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

— Samuel Johnson

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

— George Eliot

Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

— John Milton

Please stop killing animals. They do not belong to you. They belong to the earth and to the future.

— Angelique Curran

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death initial of creation, and the exponent of earth.

— Anonymous

I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it.…

— Brett Dennen

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of…

— Anonymous

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“...Jesus saw the eternal in the everyday. Your last day on earth should be spent as you spent all your others-- doing…

— Margaret George

He is the One GOD; the Creator, the Initiator, the Designer. To Him belong the most beautiful names. Glorifying Him is everything…

— Anonymous

“This earth is a garden, this life a banquet, and it's time we realized that it was given to all life, animal…

— Anonymous

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man…

— Aristotle

Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will…

— John Darnielle

“Meditation is the way to develop our natural healing abilities. Healing comes originally from our inner being, from the inner source of…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love If you want me again look for me under…

— Walt Whitman

Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form…

— William Cowper

“During the Reformation and the Enlightenment, nature came to be understood in a mechanistic sense as bereft of any capacity for divine…

— Tina Beattie

When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm…

— Shunryu Suzuki

A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out…

— Leonard Sweet

Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime…

— Eugene V. Debs

Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things…

— Michael Crichton

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

— Rod Serling

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

— Pablo Neruda

“Insanity just is, a kind of natural disaster that strikes out of the blue, the kind of thing that can happen.”

— Jo Nesbø

“Nature is taking the test; if one does not raise any objection in that, then one passes.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“My dramas mostly involved whats-as in, What on earth is that horrible creature about to rip out my throat?”

— Kiersten White

“Find the environment that best suits what lifestyle is required.”

— Steven Redhead

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

— Deng Xiaoping

“And earth was given back to earth, to mingle with the rest of the stuff the great workman works withal.”

— George MacDonald

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

— Everett Ruess

For singers, our singing voice is our natural voice, not the speaking.

— Jennifer Holliday

It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

— Eleanor Catton

No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

— Charles Lamb

There isn't a line that you can draw between the air and your body. We are the environment.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

— Hal Borland

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson