Nature Quotes · Page 500

Great people on earth are those who know how to smile when life force them to sad...!!

— Ritu Ghatourey

It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Empty minds are abhorred by thought as vacuums are by nature.”

— Barbara Vine

Maybe life on earth could be heaven, doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try?

— Bo Burnham

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

— Vinoba Bhave

Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.

— Jackie Speier

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down.

— Jack Handey

We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.

— Russell Kirk

“Death is a beautiful and natural fact of life. Suicide cheats that beauty, leaving pain and questions to a unanswerable problem.”

— Zachary Koukol

“If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. … during the week.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I fear that Christians who stand with only one leg upon earth also stand with only one leg in heaven (12 August 1943).”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted…

— Cornelia Funke

The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had…

— Ruth Pitter

Well, perhaps the greatest achievement, and we didn't know it at the time, was we held an Earth Day in 1970, and…

— Pete McCloskey

In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body…

— James Gordon Lindsay

I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change…

— Patterson Hood

Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and…

— Jessica Day George

“I said You don't know what worry is. I don't know what it is. I don't know whether I am worrying or…

— William Faulkner

And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word…

— Eula Biss

“Thou must hasten therefore; not only because thou art every day nearer unto death than other, but also because that intellective faculty…

— Marcus Aurelius

When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has…

— Margaret Mead

Water is our most precious and interconnected natural resource. It sustains all ecosystems, communities, and economies from local watersheds to the seas.…

— Alexandra Cousteau

I think it is about time that equipped women began to take on some of the ethical questions which a male-dominated culture…

— Lorraine Hansberry

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield…

— Thomas Jefferson

Is it not in human nature sometimes, based on the facts that you now know, to reconsider?

— Frans Timmermans

“The first brand was nature — everything after that was bullshit.”

— Bryant McGill

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

— Aristotle

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

— Henry Miller

After 'Furious 6,' that was a natural break for me. It was a good time to step away.

— Justin Lin

Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Forests, hills, mountains, rivers, and green streams had no protection in the face of rapacity.”

— Taylor Caldwell

“In my work I sometimes borrow Claire's nature, as well as her careful focus on the world.”

— Michael Ondaatje

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

— James Sallis

“Progress is first conceived in the mind, nature and safeguard your thought patterns.”

— Wayne Chirisa

The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.

— Michael J Cohen

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

— Robert Frost

There are more miles of natural gas pipeline in the United States than there are paved roads.

— Mike Johnson

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

— Marquis de Sade

I don't think there's a man on the earth that can stop me from scoring a basketball.

— Michael Beasley