Nature Quotes · Page 319

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

— Rumi

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

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

— Roger Zelazny

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

— John Burroughs

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

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Richard Wright

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

— David Bowie

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that…

— Annie Dillard

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.

— Edmund Arthur Helps

As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now…

— Matt Redman

That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf…

— Darren Clarke

“The logic of thought is derivative of the laws of nature. Laws of nature is subject to the idea that creates nature.”

— Toba Beta

Drinking and taking drugs. I think there was also a sort of druggie or trance-like nature to the way that I used…

— Claire Dederer

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not…

— Robert Greene

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production;…

— Frederic Bastiat

I was always really into the facts and figures and the statistics about nature and I always loved learning about it and…

— Steve Backshall

“[L]et us not overlook the further great fact, that not only does science underlie sculpture, painting, music, poetry, but that science is…

— Herbert Spencer

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for…

— Anne Lamott

Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular…

— Fred Edwords

“But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often…

— Wendell Berry

“A great man of God, Andrew Murray, said, “There is nothing that God has that He does not want to give. It…

— Marilyn Wilson

When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows…

— Florence Nightingale

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought…

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

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

— Marc Gafni

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

— Lionel Johnson

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

— Taylor Swift

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

— Dennis Skinner

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

— Terence McKenna

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

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

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Ernest Becker

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

— Barack Obama

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

— Pedro Calderon De La Barca

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

— William Whewell