Nature Quotes · Page 185

By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

— Larry Kramer

“Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.

— Simon Barnes

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.

— Mark Wahlberg

If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.

— Stephen Harper

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I've been in the studio environment since I was young, so I know what to expect.

— Lil Skies

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

— Alice Walker

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent…

— Anonymous

“Don't say nothin' wotever about it, ma'am,' replied Sam. 'I only assisted natur, ma'am; as the doctor said to the boy's mother,…

— Charles Dickens

Quite simply, our isolation from nature has become isolation from God's Word. Cocooned in our manmade world of climate-controlled homes, cars, subways,…

— Eric Metaxas

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around…

— Henry David Thoreau

As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“Of all the various peoples of this world, none leaves the human body in the simple state of nature in which it…

— Jacqueline Delange

Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.

— William H. Schlesinger

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad…

— William Wordsworth

“...it is foreign to a man's nature to go on loving a person when he is told that he must and shall…

— Thomas Hardy

“In 1761, we moved to the town of Marlow, where we remained until we had four children. When we moved there it…

— Lucy Mack Smith

“We were alone here. We had always been alone here. When we died and rid ourselves of our meaningless existences, we would…

— Madeline Sheehan

I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility,…

— Maimonides

“Confident that cast-iron walls separate our nature and situation from theirs, comfortable in the well-broken-in saddle of our high horse, we have…

— Alain De Botton

“Leaving Things Alone (excerpt) The wise man, then, when he must govern, knows how to do nothing. Letting things alone, he rests…

— Thomas Merton

“It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself—as…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings.…

— Charley Harper

Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

— Calvin Miller

“Innocent droplets of rain Make almost all events Quite natural. (from "A Rainy Day")”

— Visar Zhiti

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

— Jane Austen

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

— David Whyte

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

— Thomas Aquinas

“The man who looks to nature for God ends with a riddle instead of with God”

— Arnold Albert van Ruler

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.

— Barry White

There are no limits, and that applies to everyone on earth.

— Franz Bardon

There are infinite suns around earth in other dimensions!

— Ashwani Kumar Ojha

I remember thinking, if someone else can play me better than me, then what am I even here on this earth for?

— Julia Fox

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.

— Confucius

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

— Ambrose Bierce

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

— John Burroughs

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

— Henry David Thoreau

The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.

— Charles Barkley

“The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.”

— Hippocrates