Nature Quotes · Page 528

If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience…

— C. S. Lewis

The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by…

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

“If we can benchmark nature on how it operates, then we never have to worry about how, and when God takes care…

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

I look to nature because I think the animals are smarter than we are. Animals mate; humans date. There's no dating in…

— Adam Ferrara

No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the…

— Joseph Campbell

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit.…

— Joshua Reynolds

We are not far away from the point of no return when it comes to life on earth, and we have some…

— Jeff Corwin

“If only our words would light up the hearts of others - like the sun awakening spring trees and flowers. We might…

— Maria Lehtman

Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes…

— Lucretius

“She was petrified now but I simply slung her over my shoulder and made for my bunk. My 2IC who had caught…

— J.W. Murison

“Concentration "without" is illustrated when you devote all your attention upon Nature, such as learning a trade, a profession, a science, an…

— A. P. Mukerji

Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring…

— Roy Chapman Andrews

All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun…

— Paul Shepard

“How many understand that Nature is the essencial character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those…

— Carl Sagan

“That was the way man was meant to live, he’d say, in harmony with the wild, like the Indians, not this lords-of-the-earth…

— Jeannette Walls

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations…

— Ada Lovelace

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

— Frank Herbert

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of…

— Pat Morita

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of…

— Carl Linnaeus

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“They ruined their environment, and their civilization collapsed. You'd think their descendants would have learned not to kill the earth that feeds…

— Nancy Farmer

The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping…

— Scott Holman

“There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say.…

— Charlotte Brontë

Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power,…

— Emily Carr

There are better things than what your eyes can see , what your ears can hear , what your other senses can…

— Dev

Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights.

— Amit Ray

No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within…

— Laozi

In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza rarely spread far because the birds sicken and die before they can fly to spread…

— Michael Greger

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which…

— Blaise Pascal

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

— Richard Dawkins

I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another — it shows an inner…

— Marilyn Monroe

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill…

— John Dryden

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and…

— Vandana Shiva

The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.

— Max Lucado

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the…

— Benito Mussolini