Nature Quotes · Page 509

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

— Van Morrison

I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.

— Kami Garcia

Its human nature. He, first of all, likes to do the work for which he is forbidden.

— Mak_786

“For it’s human nature even in the direst extremity to see a spark of hope and blow it into flames.”

— Leo Perutz

Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.

— John Dryden

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair

— George Monbiot

“We have a natural resentment toward government, which was how we were born”

— Aaron Sorkin

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

— Joseph Hall

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before—it commands earth and sea and sky.…

— H.G. Wells

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it.…

— Bodhidharma

I like being to the point. It is not my nature to talk too much or indulge in loose talk. I like…

— Mohammad Azharuddin

Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change…

— Arthur Koestler

He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love…

— Flannery O'Connor

“By the sandy water I breathe in the odor of the sea, From there the wind comes and blows over the world,…

— Jane Bierhorst

“Homer Wells was in Wally’s room, reading David Copperfield and thinking about Heaven – ‘…that sky above me, where, in the mystery…

— John Irving

The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then,…

— Michael Behe

Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird…

— Frank N. Ikard

Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may…

— Neel Burton

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to…

— Anonymous

“The bowl that emerged was one of those gifts whose first impact produces in the recipient's mind a colored image, a blazoned…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm…

— Anonymous

“I can say it, but it doesn’t seem convincing to most people. I can call it an ‘injustice,’ but that doesn’t always…

— Jonathan Kozol

Have respect for mother nature, and she will respect you... By Chevy.

— Bryan N De Bruin

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

— Edward Abbey

“Fog loves to cover; wind loves to disperse! Children of nature love having fun with each other!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

— Sheridan Smith

No matter if you believe in God, the energy of the Universe or nature, just be humble to that power or entity.

— Enhance Dreams

Blow kisses to the oak trees and sparrows and elephants and weeds.

— Rob Brezsny

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

— Charles Lamb

Young leaves The sound of a waterfall Heard from far and near.

— Yosa Buson

“Service is the rent that we pay for our room on earth.”

— Lord Halifax

It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires.

— Marquis de Sade

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

— Shirley Williams

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

— Socrates

My house and my garden are built as part of nature, not over it.

— Peter Coyote

Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

— Norman Cousins

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

— Juvenal

“The skilled observer, not the machine, was the essence of conservation.”

— Robert M. Edsel