Nature Quotes · Page 268

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

— Pierre Bonnard

My daughter gets a lot of her natural music ability from her mother because she's a world-class singer, also.

— Ron Cephas Jones

“Ah, the young! Always so convinced their problems are unique in nature and unique to themselves.”

— Anonymous

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

— George Eliot

Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Herbalism is a religion of nature, representing a balance of head and heart.

— Michael Tierra

Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit.

— Helen Keller

…Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of…

— Charles Lindbergh

“it seems to me that this itself was the disaster I foresaw, a common enough disaster for most infants these days: that…

— Yaa Gyasi

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about…

— Bjorn Lomborg

We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning…

— Kij Johnson

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

— Hannah Arendt

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you…

— Charlie Cook

“Sexuality should not be seen as dualistic – all good or all bad – but as a good part of our created…

— David Kinnaman

You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between…

— Anonymous

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will…

— John Muir

The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to…

— African Spir

“Of course, natural talent also matters, but once you have a pool of candidates above the threshold of necessary potential, grit is…

— Adam M. Grant

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light… They are too pure to have…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice…

— Susanna Clarke

We want to see...the efficient production and use of energy, so that the products we produce and the way we produce them…

— John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley

“Just as we commonly hear people say the doctor prescribed someone particular riding exercises, or ice baths, or walking without shoes, we…

— Ryan Holiday

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

— Christopher Pike

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

— Confucius

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

— Marquis de Sade

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

— Leonardo da Vinci

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

— Edmund Spenser

Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.

— Richard Conniff

But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.

— Gavin de Beer

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!

— Stewart Udall

Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

— Judith Jamison

By nature of the job, most actors are striking, remarkable, and alpha.

— Peter Morgan

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.

— Frederick Lenz

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

— Arthur Keith

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

— Joseph Addison

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

— William Faulkner

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

— Lady Gregory

To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have

— Phil Harding