Nature Quotes · Page 269

“Predation is so fundamental to nature that it seems absurd to demonize it for any animal, including humans.”

— Jackson Landers

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

— Oswald Spengler

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

— Xenophanes

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

— Jim Fowler

Love is like a fire. Whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn your house down, you'll never know

— Anonymous

“For EARTH which is an intelligence hath a voice and a propensity to speak in all her parts.”

— Christopher Smart

“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur”

— Jane Austen

“Lucy, take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.”

— Charlotte Brontë

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

Only two people on this earth will be extremely happy¦. One¦ who gets everything in Love¦. And The other who does not…

— Anonymous

The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of…

— Robert T. Bakker

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.

— Bill Callahan

Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to…

— Pablo Neruda

“And now we look upon the earth and sky. This spread of naked rock and peaks and moonlight is like a world…

— Ayn Rand

[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary…

— Samuel West

Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and…

— Joel Beeke

When we are caught up in the nature of our work and are asked to take on another job or position, rarely…

— Mindy Grossman

“Can anyone maintain power without lying? It looks to me like living without breathing. Morality apart, I think some evils are part…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Nature teaches us lessons that no book can teach. It teaches us that there is always inequality in life. Just look at…

— Mouloud Benzadi

“The fall of dusk upon the Egyptian scene is an unforgettable event, an event of unearthly beauty. Everything is transformed in colour…

— Paul Brunton

“At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed…

— Scotty Smith

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Marriage is earth’s closest image for Heaven because it is all or nothing, forever - a leap of faith.”

— Peter Kreeft

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

— Narendra Modi

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

— Olivia Newton-John

“She wishes to live in harmony with nature. I wish to live in harmony with her.”

— Bruce Adler

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

— Samuel Johnson

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

— Elizabeth Lesser

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.

— William Shakespeare

The meek may inherit the earth, but the other kind inherits the mortgage

— Noah Goldstein

I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.

— Gloria Estefan

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

— Ted Kulongoski

“Timothy Beatley in Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning (2011)”

— Edward O. Wilson