Nature Quotes · Page 292

But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

— John Milton

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

— Alexander Hamilton

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.

— Henry Van Dyke

We come from the earth. We come from the universe. We are special creatures, and we have magnificent powers.

— Justin Nozuka

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

— John Galsworthy

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

— William Law

... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?

— Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

“Your pitch should not feel like a pitch. It should feel like the natural next step in a helpful conversation.”

— Peter Holberg

When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that…

— Martin Luther

“The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or…

— Lao Tzu

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is…

— Amy Hempel

Anyone who believes that men and women have the same mind-set hasn't lived on earth. A man thinks that everything he does…

— Margo Kaufman

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for…

— Huldrych Zwingli

I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the earth because I figure, a) They pay…

— James Woods

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge…

— Boris Pasternak

“Yes, I am your enemy, as I was in my other incarnations, but that is my nature, and it is something I…

— Anonymous

“Did the Toyon not see that he, too, had been born like the others—with bright, open eyes, in which heaven and earth…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Do you still tell me that I have power over the waves? Oh! foolish men, do you not know that to God…

— H.E. Marshall

Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new…

— Jeff Goodell

The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. .…

— Helen Keller

“Behold, my brothers, the spring has come; the earth has received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the…

— Sitting Bull

“The palace still shook occasionally as the earth rumbled in memory, groaned as if it would deny what had happened. Bars of…

— Robert Jordan

“Tonight the thoughts of the dead are turning back to the earth.”

— Joe Bousquet

Everyone's gonna die. It's a natural part of life. But if life has no purpose, you're dead already.

— BONES, Keiko Nobumoto, Toshitsugu Iida

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Yet such was the nature of their journey: maddeningly difficult and delightfully dangerous.”

— Aubrie Nixon

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

— Charles Lindbergh

The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.

— Kristoffer Rygg

In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.

— Hugh MacDiarmid

The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.

— Mason Cooley

“It's really not a question of how long you have on this earth; it's about what you do with it.”

— Jane Seymour

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

— Oswald Chambers

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

— Goldwin Smith

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

— Amy Lowell

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

— Thomas Hood

By nature, Im an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

— Larry Kramer

I always used to be more of a city guy, and more and more I'm starting to enjoy being in nature.

— Michiel Huisman

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it.

— Herman Melville