Nature Quotes · Page 242

There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

— Thomas Wolfe

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

— Jefferson Davis

Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.

— Garrett Hardin

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden.

— Joseph Hertz

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.- Albert Einstein Watching birds has become part of my daily…

— Carol P. Christ

Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing

— Shenhui

“From some angles, up is toward the earth and down toward the sky, and everything—people, horses, cathedrals, dreams—is suspended over the ceaseless…

— Rachel Hartman

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

— William Jones

“My love for you is genuine,real, and not based off material things. I give you so much of me it's crazy. My…

— Chantel Smith

Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle…

— Dolly Parton

Beyond individual intelligence, nature has also cultivated intelligence through swarms. For example, bees, birds and fish act in a more intelligent way…

— Louis B. Rosenberg

“He had lost that privilege of simple nature, the dissociation of love and pleasure. Pleasure was no longer as simple as eating;…

— Thornton Wilder

“The most important result of the encounter [in the preceding anecdote] is the scholar's startling discovery of the roundness of the earth…

— Azar Nafisi

Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for…

— Hermann Hesse

“We forest officers, who acquiesced in the extinguishment of the bear, knew a local rancher who had plowed up a dagger engraved…

— Aldo Leopold

You find that our great conservation heroes tend to be people who had a radical engagement with nature. That involvement... breeds in…

— Steven Rinella

“What is the harm, ye ask, in not distinguishing oneself? If we do not distinguish, we get beyond our own nature, away…

— C.G. Jung

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and…

— Dale Carnegie

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

— John Bradshaw

Being sober while adults are drunk is probably the closest thing to hell on earth.

— Anonymous

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

— John Muir

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.”

— Jack Donovan

“Perhaps you would be better off finding some way to embrace your new nature, instead of fighting it.”

— Deborah Blake

You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.

— Walter Russell

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

— John Muir

The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live.

— Evaristo Nugkuag

“Because it is human nature to believe the first story heard, and not its rebuttal.”

— Katherine Longshore

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

— Rebecca West

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

— Frans Lanting

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

— Galileo Galilei

I think I get inspiration from places where I see nature.

— Jimin

Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

— Anonymous

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. -Oscar Wilde”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits