Nature Quotes · Page 287

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

— Publilius Syrus

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

— Fernando Botero

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

— Kenneth R. Miller

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

— Robert Anton Wilson

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

— Janine Benyus

Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

— Emily Dickinson

It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment.

— Rob Lowe

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“One of the most critical ways to protect nature is this: The dominant element in every settlement should be trees, not buildings!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind…

— Pearl S. Buck

I have been fortunate enough to see many places of this earth and most certainly a lot of art, but I would…

— Floor Jansen

“Sore loser? You bet your fuckin' ass! What on earth is wrong with being a sore loser? It shows you cared about…

— George Carlin

... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King…

— Robert Frost

“Conscience, the divine nature within us, sees everything as connected, what’s good for all is always its priority.”

— Ilchi Lee

When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving'…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“There once was a hero who flew too close to the sun. His wings of wax fell apart and he plummeted to…

— Hiromu Arakawa

“He is an abscess on the universe who withdraws and separates himself from the reason of our common nature through being displeased…

— Marcus Aurelius

We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to…

— David Graeber

[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning…

— Harold B. Lee

No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is…

— Chanakya

Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this…

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more…

— Erich Fromm

“[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to…

— Tiffany Madison

Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets…

— Jean Hersey

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Nature in one of her beneficient moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.”

— Bram Stoker

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

— Abraham Cowley

“Let your malcontent for a melancholy life be known, rebellion is the chaos of our nature.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

— Alexander Pope

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

— E. O. Wilson

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

— Louis Diat

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

— Fred Hoyle

Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

— Ronald Reagan

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

— Mason Cooley

“Nothing prevents us being natural so much as the desire to appear so.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

“Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically[.]”

— Will Durant

A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

— Richard Louv

“The world is ‘charging’ by nature itself. The ‘discharge’ part is just a ‘reaction’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family.

— Steve Fowler

If there is a heaven, it must be here on earth because the earth is so beautiful.

— Emile Gruppe