Nature Quotes · Page 1,114

“Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind,…

— Hermann Hesse

Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on…

— Sam Harris

“We are the only species on earth that not only refuses to give up milk but furthermore insists on drinking the milk…

— Kimberly Snyder

The environment forces you to be utterly dependent between "action" and "cut" because the environment is perfect on your fellow actor. So…

— Ben Kingsley

To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be…

— Pablo Casals

“Most nations argue that they are a natural and eternal entity, created in some primordial epoch by mixing the soil of the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what…

— Keanu Reeves

We're being challenged to do something so profound, it's unprecedented in the history of our species, and there couldn't be more at…

— Anohni

These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore…

— Thorstein Veblen

“Water rising under rock Breaks earth's lock, Floods thirst roots, Nurtures sap and trunk and shoots, Greens and plumps each greedy leaf…

— Anne Eliot Crompton

If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to…

— Emma Restall Orr

“An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladdens the hearts…

— Annie Dillard

Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to…

— Andrew Bird

Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set…

— Thomas Hardy

Who, of men, can tell That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell To melting pulp, that fish would have…

— John Keats

“Thus to him, to this school-boy under the bending dome of day, is suggested, that he and it proceed from one root;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the…

— Gautama Buddha

“It is a comfort to me to know that above the steam and filth of human lowlands there is a higher, brighter…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“This is a book for those of you who want to be parents as well as people, who don't want to feel…

— Brett Berk

Because people learn from their mistakes, Danger. Pain and failure are a natural part of life. It's kind of like a parent…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Back therefore we find ourselves returning. Back to the wisdom of the plough; back to the wisdom of those who follow the…

— John Cowper Powys

“Moreover — just as in moments of musing contemplation of nature, the normal actions of the mind being suspended, and our abstract…

— Marcel Proust

Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As…

— Jimmy Carter

We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history…

— Rachel Carson

“Ree is his. Is his, is devoted to him, is aggravatingly tender and possessively passionate and wrapped up in him in a…

— Alex Ankarr

How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who…

— Emily Dickinson

We have to create strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new men with…

— Sri Aurobindo

I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans…

— James Cameron

“Sadly, the natural world is not short of people who believe that rattling off Latin names incessantly makes them appear clever, whereas…

— Tristan Gooley

“Beliefs are big on earth. People collect them. Some of these beliefs are helpful, but others just keep you running around trying…

— Annie Kagan

The responsibility which rests upon man is proportional to the ability which he possesses and the opportunity which he faces. Perhaps that…

— Kirtley F. Mather

[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with…

— Thomas Edward Thorpe

“English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets—Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included—breathes no quite…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Na Natureza nunca eu descobriria um contorno feio ou repetido! Nunca duas folhas de hera, que, na verdura ou recorte, se assemelhassem!…

— Eça de Queirós

“Ibn Arabi observes that the most perfect of mystic lovers are those who love God simultaneously for himself and for them- selves,…

— Henry Corbin

We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant…

— Charles Darwin

“No follower of Christ knew the shape of the earth. For many centuries this great Peasant of Palestine has been worshiped as…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be…

— Alan Sugar