Nature Quotes · Page 467

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

— Matthew Henry

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

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Anonymous

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

— Angelique Curran

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

— John Milton

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

— George Eliot

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think…

— Edmund Burke

“all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by…

— Abraham Lincoln

I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I…

— Joseph Hall

The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning…

— Eric Kandel

To be able to have my natural hair on TV, that will encourage so many more women who wear their hair natural…

— Simone Missick

“Fringilla' he answered after a while. 'You're a woman a man can only dream about. My Fault, my only fault, is that…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet…

— Paulo Coelho

President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful…

— Craig Kilborn

The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and…

— Jonathan Franzen

There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A…

— G. Tyler Miller

If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there…

— Richard Rohr

“This theological construct contains the following tenets: 1) YHWH chose Jerusalem specifically as the city for his immediate presence on earth; 2)…

— Charles River Editors

When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being. Youre able to keep your eyes open,…

— Anonymous

“The obvious pollution occurring in many places - worst of all, in the planned societies- has encouraged the growth of the environmental…

— Jacqueline Kasun

For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary,…

— Lucretius

For some, the belief in a Young Earth seems to be based on a kind of intuition or faith in what they…

— Norman Geisler

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

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

— Jane Goodall

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

— Bible

Change is nature, the part that we can influence, and it starts when we decide.

— Zahid Abas

“I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me”

— Charles Dickens

“It's so strange how one day you can be on this earth, and the next day not.”

— R.J. Palacio

“If there were such a thing as fate, I had been put on this earth to destroy and not to create.”

— Jocelynn Drake

“She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

— Mackenzie Crook

Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.

— Edward Abbey

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“They say there's no such thing as a perfect pearl - that nothing from nature can ever be truly perfect.”

— Beth Hoffman

I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

— William Butler Yeats

Every ghetto kid that walks the earth can see something in KRS-One that reminds him of himself.

— KRS-One

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

— Wallace Stevens