Nature Quotes · Page 217

No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

— Margaret Thatcher

“Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame.”

— Alessandro Baricco

We try to make earth-friendly decisions whenever we can, as it's part of our brand DNA.

— Stella McCartney

I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty.

— Margaret D. Nadauld

It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

— Gail Zappa

“Of its very nature swearing is as irrational as magic — indeed, it is a species of magic.”

— George Orwell

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

— Anonymous

Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

My nature is love Him. And therefore I love. I do not pray for any-thing. I do not ask for anything. Let…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Not all marriages are made in heaven. Some, probably most, are constructed here on earth for any number of reason.”

— Farahad Zama

“Be mindful of your social environment. By nature, the group you hang-out with will develop a common behavior and mindset. This behavior…

— Steve Maraboli

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old…

— Phyllis Bottome

“Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.”

— Leonard Cohen

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from…

— Philip Carr-Gomm

“Oh, dear Lord. I was in love with him. And there wasn’t a thing on earth, in heaven, or in hell that…

— Wendy Higgins

What it means among other things is the more we learn about the nature of the universe, the nature of creation...if we're…

— Michael Dowd

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in…

— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

You may or may not be aware of it, but you have a dreaming nature. You inherited this part of your disposition…

— Dutch Sheets

Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a…

— Shirley Hibberd

Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in…

— Hildegard of Bingen

A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so…

— Henry Fielding

“Everyone already has a Buddha nature inside of them, but it is almost impossible to see and feel as our awareness is…

— Ian Tuhovsky

In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself,…

— Wilder Penfield

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

— Anonymous

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

— Anonymous

“Rinkeni, you could be standing on the other side of the earth, and I would hear you if you needed me.”

— Tess Oliver

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

— Hugh Jackman

I am an optimist by nature and I reserve the right to be wrong.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

— Henry Van Dyke

“The longer one is alone, the easier to hear the song of the earth.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“Another form of church, football was all that stood between earth and God.”

— Morrissey

If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.

— John Burnside

Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

— John Milton

“We are emotional creatures; consequently, human nature is to do the wrong thing at the wrong time.”

— Ken Poirot

A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.

— A. R. Gurney

I think how we dress represents the music and the nature of us.

— Sky Blu

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

— Martin Buber

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

— Michel de Montaigne