Nature Quotes · Page 180

“Natural abilities do not respond well to compulsion; when Nature is in opposition, labour is fruitless.”

— Seneca

One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.

— M. Russell Ballard

Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.

— Elvis Presley

I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.

— Jake Owen

The rules of wildlife are simple and clear, which is not the case for men.

— Laurent Baheux

When you listen to nature, it may still be difficult to live a life, but it's inspiring.

— Gordon Hempton

I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.

— Kathryn Bigelow

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

— Anonymous

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not…

— Charles Spurgeon

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to…

— Albert Claude

“Of course, as a model for my magician Strange is far from perfect --he lacks the true heroic nature; for that I…

— Susanna Clarke

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed…

— Flora Thompson

“All men are by nature equal, made of the same earth by one workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto…

— Elizabeth Hunter

Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in…

— Dag Hammarskjold

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of…

— Leo Tolstoy

I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids…

— Edward Abbey

“The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the…

— Étienne Gilson

“Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of…

— Maggie Macnab

“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing…

— Victor Davis Hanson

To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love -…

— Marie-Luise Gothein

Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the…

— Cathy Hughes

“It is therefore scientifically correct to say that 'natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change' - we…

— E.F. Schumacher

I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot…

— Matthew Scully

The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The…

— Malcolm X

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

— Ivan Turgenev

Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.

— John Lennon

Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there be a hell upon earth it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart

— Robert Burton

It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.

— John Quincy Adams

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.

— Steve Irwin

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

— Anonymous

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

— John Wilmot

The secret of landscapes isn't creation...It's maintenance.

— Michael Dolan

What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

— Honore de Balzac

If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

— Nell Blaine

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

— Herbert Spencer

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

— George Bernard Shaw

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

— Lynn Margulis