Nature Quotes · Page 318

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

— William Lyon Phelps

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

— Pierre Corneille

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

— Anonymous

“I have a natural tendency to go away when told to do so. Do you really want me to?”

— Margaret Way

its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

— Anonymous

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

— Edward Thomas

Without parents, you sort of lose the gravity that keeps your feet on the earth.

— Howard Lutnick

The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

— David Chaytor

When all the guilt that's in your head, turns its back and plays for dead, you scorch the earth and torch the…

— Def Leppard

From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of…

— John Quincy Adams

In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a…

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue…

— Anonymous

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature…

— John Ruskin

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence…

— Louis Pasteur

“It’s one thing to describe someone as a voice crying in the wilderness, but that doesn’t quite capture Laurence Vance and his…

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature;…

— Thomas Browne

“The two of them had fallen into the habit of bartering knowledge whenever she visited. He schooled her in jazz, in bebop…

— Tracy Guzeman

This other war, the war upon destruction of natural assets is one that will never be finished. Our weakness in this vast…

— Louis Bromfield

“Here all of nature was captured, labeled, arranged according to a logic that seemed as timeless as if ordered by God, perhaps…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“Atlantis was one name for an ancient civilization that went through a terrible catastrophe and that we now have the opportunity to…

— David Wilcock

“The Afghan sky, under which the most beautiful idylls on earth were woven, grew suddenly dark with armored predators; its azure limpidity…

— Yasmina Khadra

Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical…

— Luc de Clapiers

Portfolio investment, often called 'hot money' because of its volatile nature, can increase the economy's vulnerability to the vagaries of international finance.…

— Gita Gopinath

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout…

— John Muir

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

— James Dwight Dana

“It's important to be close to nature in proximity, but connecting to it is what leads to transformation.”

— Stela Brinzeanu

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.

— Lucan

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

— Alice Meynell

Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.

— Robert Browning

“as different as earth and sky but bound by some mysterious connection”

— Courtney Angela Brkic

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

— Thomas Paine

I think everyone knows the nature of 'Call Her Daddy' and it's cemented as a brand that everyone respects.

— Alex Cooper

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

— Geena Davis

“i'm painting a blue square in my backyard so google earth thinks i have a pool”

— Nilesh Monapara

That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.

— Walter Scott

“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.”

— Marlene Van Niekerk

“The nature of the world is that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process.”

— Brandon Sanderson

It's my nature, and I was given this by my parents, to live for those big moments.

— Danilo Gallinari

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

— Richard Dawkins

I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert.

— Li Bingbing