Nature Quotes · Page 464

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

— Cornel West

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.”

— Josephine Humphreys

As in nature, so in politics: Every action has a reaction.

— Anne Applebaum

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

— George Eliot

Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should

— George Michael

Even if it comes off natural, everyone has a fashion sense.

— Future

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

— Will Durant

That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf…

— Darren Clarke

As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now…

— Matt Redman

Everybody has their time here on earth, use it wisely and stay away from people who like to use and abuse you...

— Anonymous

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the…

— Herodotus

“I stood like Adam in his lonely garden On that first morning, shaken out of sleep, Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the…

— Mary Oliver

The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping…

— Gelsey Kirkland

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature;…

— Thomas Browne

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.

— Edmund Arthur Helps

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in…

— Spencer Abraham

I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“There are those who think the desert has been dealt so severe and desiccated a hand by nature that it cannot be…

— Gary J. George

“As for the distinction between "self-empty" and "other-empty," Dolpopa said that seeming reality is self-empty, while ultimate reality-Buddha nature or the nature…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“We reduce, concretize, or substantialize experiences or feelings, which are, in their very nature, fleeting or evanescent. In so doing, we define…

— Mark Epstein

“If for some women flirting is second nature, insignificant, routine, for Tereza it had developed into an important field of research with…

— Milan Kundera

If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living…

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

“Off Spruce, there was a little known trail. A savage gulley wound through acreage of older residential homes that met up with…

— Jazz Feylynn

Nature has a way of giving back. And we can never go against it.

— Shefali Zariwala

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

— Edwin Louis Cole

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

— Alice Walker

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.

— Anonymous

Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of…

— Anonymous

“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.”

— Honoré de Balzac

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

— Anonymous

“To develop your intuition, you need to respect it as a natural intelligence.”

— Laurie Nadel

I don't think that the point of being in the wilderness is to get out as quickly as humanly possible.

— Steven Rinella

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

— Aristotle

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

— Jeremy Taylor

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

— Taylor Caldwell

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Hal Borland

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

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki