Nature Quotes · Page 222

Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

— Alexander Pope

Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.

— May Sarton

The minute I get swelled up about something, something has always brought me back down to earth.

— Chuck D

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

— Robert Anthony

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

— James Hollis

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

— Wilhelm Reich

“He had reached the point where all he wanted on earth was to be alone.”

— D.H. Lawrence

Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.

— Francis Bacon Sr

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory…

— Washington Irving

“To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state,…

— Lawrence Crane

“Each type of magic corresponds to a different color glyph—white for air, orange for fire, green for earth, and blue for water.”

— Steve McHugh

“We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher…

— Aldo Leopold

If today there is a proper American sphere of influence it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live…

— Hubert H Humphrey

People didn't love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what's best for it. You…

— Michael Monroe

Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of…

— Friedrich Schiller

“We’ll mark the butterflies disappearing over the hedge with tiny wristwatches on their wings: our fingers touching the earth, like two Buddhas”

— Irving Layton

“God is thus experienced as that bliss in which our natures have their consummation because that bliss is already, in God, the…

— David Bentley Hart

Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the…

— Juvenal

I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or…

— Jim Morrison

We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point…

— Carl Honore

“Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist…

— Bell Hooks

“Only the land remained, the silent order of the mountains, the ground covered in fallen dead leaves in the enormous space, a…

— László Krasznahorkai

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“God blessed us with so many beautiful things around us 'NATURE' and then gave us the precious gift 'LIFE' to enjoy. So,…

— Manik Ghawri

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

— Edward Abbey

“If I were in his(Prophet Muhammad) presence, I would wash his feet.”

— Hercules

“By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.”

— Asti Hustvedt

It was an incredible series, 'From The Earth To The Moon.' All of it's great.

— Tony Goldwyn

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

— Satish Kumar

“When we change, our environment also has to change so as to be in alignment with what we are.”

— Thomas Vazhakunnathu

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

— H. Rider Haggard

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

— George Sand

Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

— Horace

Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.

— Jay-Z

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

— Ronald Fisher

In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

— Jason Hill

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

— Jules Verne

“Redemptive history supplies what is lacking in natural revelation, the means by which God forgives sin.”

— Anonymous

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

— Charlie Chaplin

“Explaining how much I you is like explaining how the water tastes from the drops of the rain”

— Chief Justice Moalusi Tlotlo