Nature Quotes · Page 247

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

— Gary Chapman

I'm recycling cans this Earth Day for the extra nickels to help pay for gas.

— Anonymous

When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.

— Maris Liepa

I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

— Hugh Bonneville

The more artificial a human environment becomes, the more the word ‘natural’ becomes a term of value.

— Wendell Berry

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

— Calvin Miller

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

— Billy Graham

“I believe that the ten billion people expected to be present at the end of the century will enjoy a far better…

— Edward O. Wilson

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in…

— Seth Lloyd

Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler…

— Charles Hodge

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of…

— Cornel West

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation…

— Thomas Hobbes

“The basic characteristics of any good investigator are a plodding nature and infinite patience. Society has inadvertently been grooming women to this…

— Sue Grafton

“The struggle is against a nation that will always spit in its grandchildren's faces for immediate profit. As Vizenor would say, ‘Their…

— Jim Harrison

“You can't skip over nature by logic. Logic presupposes three possibilities, but there are millions! Cut away a million, and reduce it…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“In God's perspective, there is no other fault that is noted other than the fact that You [the Self] do not prevail…

— Dada Bhagwan

Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice…

— Wendell Berry

“She wasn't a nature girl, though for some reason he wanted her to be. He wanted her to be a lot of…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the…

— James Whistler

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to…

— Samuel Johnson

“One way to understand one's true nature is by going back in time to one’s earliest memories, the roots of one’s mind.…

— VD

Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement,…

— Gregory Palamas

“In the morning and in the evening and at night in his dreams, this street was filled with constantly bustling traffic, which…

— Franz Kafka

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

— Charles Dickens

Me and Sierra walking around some near by country (: Miss the woods but the city does me some good! <3

— Jade

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

— William Wordsworth

“He looked at me like I just told him the earth was flat and I had definitive proof.”

— Heidi R. Kling

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.

— Saint John Chrysostom

“Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The art of medicine consists of amusingthe patient while nature cures the disease.” —VOLTAIRE”

— Sarah Ballantyne

You are not saved for the sole purpose of going to heaven; you are saved to finish your assignment on earth

— Myles Munroe

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“So little time. We have so little time on this earth with the people we love.”

— Tess Gerritsen

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

— Ole Hallesby

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

— Peter Greenaway

The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence.

— Simon May

“Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.”

— Immanuel Kant