Nature Quotes · Page 504

And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

— A. E. Housman

“The differences which come under the first head are those which Nature herself has set between man and man;”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way.

— Chris d'Lacey

Everyday when you wake up, smile at nature, even when it doesn't smile back...

— Ritu Ghatourey

Most people don't know that I'm down to earth until they meet me.

— Stefflon Don

“We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur.”

— Khushwant Singh

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

— Fritz Sauckel

I will work every single day to make sure that America continues to be the greatest nation on earth.

— Barack Obama

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so…

— James Anthony Froude

“...close up, a world's all dirt and rocks... The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once,…

— Socrates

“Nature well drawn, and wit, must now give place To gaudy nonsense and to dull grimace: Nor is it strange that you…

— George Etherege

Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it…

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

“Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature…

— Margaret George

I don't remember a time or an incident where I decided to be an actor because it was always a part of…

— Pratik Gandhi

The IOC have decided Russia will pay them £50 million, and that is their punishment for 40 years of duping the world…

— Bryan Fogel

“How on earth could he not see it? It stood on the wooden floor behind him, in the corner just inside the…

— Helen Garner

“committing suicide, both for your own sake and that of your companions. Both sexually and socially the polar explorer must make up…

— Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it…

— Jacques Roumain

“Nature had once produced an Englishman whose domed head had been a hive of words; a man who had only to breathe…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“We must, however, reflect on what is happening. It is an urgent matter, especially for those of us who still live in…

— Thomas Berry

Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him,…

— Josiah Warren

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

— Claude Monet

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

— Thomas Hardy

Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death.

— Matthew Walker

“Well, Gascon, I'm going to miss your long blue hair. How on earth will I find you in a crowd now?”

— Marianne Curley

“At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.”

— David Mitchell

[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.

— Martin Amis

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

— Hannah Arendt

No one is a natural - you have to work at being a natural.

— Greg Proops

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

— George A. Smith

“Intoxicated as he was with the heavens, he could not imagine needing anything on earth.”

— Katherine Paterson

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

— Edward Abbey

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see...

— Frank Lloyd Wright

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

— Mercy Otis Warren

I didn't choose to be gay. It would be more accurate to say that it was determined by nature.

— Jens Spahn

Wilderness, then, assumes unexpected importance as a laboratory for the study of land - health.

— Aldo Leopold