Nature Quotes · Page 190

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

— Prince Philip

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

— Henry David Thoreau

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

— Vincent Van Gogh

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

— Charles Brockden Brown

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.

— Billy Crystal

“I cannot be weaned/Off the earth's long contour, her river-veins.”

— Seamus Heaney

“By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.”

— Anonymous

I would love sitting in the wilderness as a kid and I still love it.

— Vatsal Sheth

“Karl Popper once said that attempts to create heaven on earth invariably produce hell. Libertarianism holds out the goal not of a…

— David Boaz

When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a…

— Peter Andre

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and…

— Joseph Addison

“We were all put on this earth to be happy and we all deserve to be. Don't let anyone or anything steal…

— Timothy Pina

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

— Henry David Thoreau

“For the animals in nature, everywhere is their houses! When we touch anywhere in nature, we must know that we knock their…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even…

— Derrick Jensen

I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of…

— Margo MacDonald

Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence.…

— Anthony de Mello

“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature…

— John Williams

When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to…

— Jimmy Carter

You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to…

— George Washington Carver

“He never read a book but often thought about God; it was unavoidable, a matter of simplicity and awe. The starry sky,…

— Knut Hamsun

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although…

— John Calvin

Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself…

— Karl Marx

What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

— Rumi

“Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference.”

— Bruce Bickford

The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it

— Ted Trueblood

“I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.”

— Jodi Picoult

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

— Abraham Lincoln

I like girls that are down to earth, just like to have fun, and be themselves.

— Jacob Latimore

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

— Pierre Bonnard

“If we don't have time for masterpiece moments, the very reason we came to earth is being wasted on us.”

— Chieko N. Okazaki

Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.

— Stella Gibbons

A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening,

— Bernie Krause

Happy Earth Day to someone who I'm fairly sure thinks global warming is a myth.

— Anonymous

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

— Hannibal

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

— George Eliot

…Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.

— Helen Keller