Nature Quotes · Page 276

“I wonder as to the value of consciousness,” said Jack, “if it does not change the nature of a beast.”

— Roger Zelazny

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I…

— Brian McDermott

Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.

— Rumi

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth...

— Nikola Tesla

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'

— John Burroughs

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

— David Bowie

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner”

— Richard Wright

Farting is natures way of telling someone to fuck off but in a nicer way.

— Nikhil Saluja

If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would…

— Johannes Kepler

“Change is nature’s way of offering us the opportunity to explore the parameters of our humanity and potential. Don’t fight it, embrace…

— Steve Maraboli

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a…

— Frank Moore Colby

“I never was the type of noblewoman to stay by the hearth while the men rode into battle anyway. As my father…

— Mark Noce

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like…

— Anonymous

We are natural partners [with Japan] in the world and the Far East, but the absence of a peace treaty does not…

— Vladimir Putin

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it.…

— Bodhidharma

I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is…

— Roma Downey

Man is directly a natural being. As a natural being and as a living natural being he is on the one hand…

— Melchor Lim

Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we…

— Judy Woodruff

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and…

— Thomas a Kempis

“Nature doesn’t care if we throw ourselves against it and break a few bones. Nature doesn’t care if we feel so heavy…

— Francesca Zappia

I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a…

— Thomas Jefferson

Bernie Sanders did not wake up last night with this great idea that we should guarantee health care to all people as…

— Bernie Sanders

“Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains…

— John Steinbeck

“Poor people are subject to fancies — this is a provision of nature.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

— Marc Gafni

“May not the space between heaven and earth be compared to a bellows?”

— Lao Tzu

Everyone is born with an instinct which balance itself with nature

— Kiula Shagile

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

— Taylor Swift

Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

— Lionel Johnson

Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.

— Dennis Skinner

For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.

— Edmund Spenser

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

— Bertrand Russell

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

— Terence McKenna

Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it.

— Barack Obama

“Mother nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates.”

— Ernest Becker

“I’d dig your grave with a spoon, if the earth were made of green Jell-O.”

— Jarod Kintz

It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

— Harrison Ford

Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature.

— Mark Nepo