Nature Quotes · Page 298

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I have always been first and foremost a cinephile, so making references to other films is second nature to me.

— Bruce LaBruce

The earth is going to survive, it's the people that aren't.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.

— Fernando Sabino

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

— May Sarton

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

— Margaret Chan

“We can be the perfect creation on earth, but our mind let us down.”

— Lisped

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

— Diane Ackerman

The camera is a natural attraction for a politician. And if a camera is here, we're going to be here. And we're…

— Thad Cochran

“I should have known that at the root of any mystery that's all you find: people doing unspeakable harm to other people.…

— Nick Dybek

One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic…

— Bre Pettis

Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive ,…

— Vandana Shiva

“Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way."…

— Agatha Christie

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things…

— Epicurus

“I’d been wandering about in the enchantments of romance, afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explore the concepts of science and mathematics,…

— Katherine Vucicevic

“Forgetting is what nature does best. The universe is a huge forgetting machine. It erases information no matter how hard we try…

— Carolyn Ives Gilman

The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of…

— David Suzuki

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now.…

— Candace Bushnell

Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly.…

— Anonymous

The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a…

— Michael Crichton

“Humanism believes in salvation by works of law. By vast appropriations of money, and dedicated labor, [it] is trying to save all…

— R.J. Rushdoony

When I started out, there were many different companies... you could leave and go to a different territory, and there were so…

— Rob Van Dam

Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

— Barbara Holland

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

— Thomas Jefferson

Treat each day as IF it was your last day because you never know when we have to leave this earth…

— Frenchqueen

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

— Edouard Manet

And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.

— Alexander Pope

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

— Nick Hornby

Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.

— Leonard Ravenhill

“I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us.”

— L.M. Montgomery

Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing.

— Shirley Chisholm

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor…

— Anthony Hopkins

But just improving each day, that's just the ultimate goal from now until I'm no longer on this earth.

— Caeleb Dressel

A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

— Charles Lamb

“(Oscar) Wilde is surely one of the most erotic writers who ever lived.”

— Tanith Lee

“I know of only one serious thing on this earth, the growing of grapes.”

— Voltaire

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

— Joseph Kosuth