Nature Quotes · Page 324

Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.

— Judith Jamison

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

— Lady Gregory

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.

— William Faulkner

“Predation is so fundamental to nature that it seems absurd to demonize it for any animal, including humans.”

— Jackson Landers

To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have

— Phil Harding

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

— Jim Fowler

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

— Oswald Spengler

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

— Xenophanes

“All I can say is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims– and as far as possible one…

— Albert Camus

President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful…

— Craig Kilborn

I love you because all the loves in the world are like different rivers flowing into the same lake where they meet…

— Paulo Coelho

“Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects…

— Ornette Coleman

“The natural byproduct of intimacy with Jesus is that He begins to live through you and destroy the works of the devil…

— Ryan Wyatt

“In neither general nor social life should the 'strong' be confused for the 'colorful' or the 'different,' and the 'selection' process will…

— G Rodrigues

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town…

— Susan Orlean

Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel,…

— Carol Bly

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service…

— Dionne Warwick

Now, my tree-climbing days long behind me, I often think about the lasting value of those early, deliciously idle days. I have…

— Richard Louv

“This tower was a giant, standing with its back to the plight of the ants. It represented in a degree, to the…

— Stephen Crane

“[...] I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown…

— Charlotte Brontë

Tidal rhythms have an effect on our physiology… When we feel out of sorts, our body is out of sync with the…

— Deepak Chopra

“[N]ature listens not to the plaints of man, it is callous to his sorrows. Hence man turns away from Nature, … He…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“For EARTH which is an intelligence hath a voice and a propensity to speak in all her parts.”

— Christopher Smart

Love is like a fire. Whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn your house down, you'll never know

— Anonymous

“Marriage is earth’s closest image for Heaven because it is all or nothing, forever - a leap of faith.”

— Peter Kreeft

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art, a euphemism, tamed wilderness.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Lucy, take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur”

— Jane Austen

“She wishes to live in harmony with nature. I wish to live in harmony with her.”

— Bruce Adler

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

— Olivia Newton-John

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

— Narendra Modi

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

— Samuel Johnson

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

— Elizabeth Lesser

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

— Ted Kulongoski

I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.

— Gloria Estefan