Nature Quotes · Page 332

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

— Anonymous

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

— Francis Bacon

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

— Todd Gitlin

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a…

— Donald Antrim

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

— Natalie Goldberg

Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And…

— Robert Muller

“Merciful Heavens! But what do I care for the laws of nature and arithmetic, when, for some reason I dislike those laws…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you…

— Matt Damon

I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the…

— Aron Ralston

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint!…

— Robert Frost

“I marvelled about the nature of humanity, and how something as lovely as friendship could stem from something so hideous.”

— Wendy Higgins

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." [ Notebook , Oct. 10, 1842]”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The Moon rules our emotional nature, how we react in situations, and what is needed in our lives to make us feel…

— Rosemary Breen

“It is not that the noble nature loves monotony, any more than it loves darkness or pain. But it can bear with…

— John Ruskin

Nothing written in any book is a perfect reflection of truth.(...) No teachings and no bibles on earth are perfect. They can…

— Harold Klemp

If youre going for au naturel beauty, the UK is the best place. But if you want a bit of plastic fantastic…

— Jack Osbourne

“I Ask for Silence" Now they can leave me in peace. Now they grow used to my absence. I am going to…

— Pablo Neruda

“For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd Work…

— Peter Ackroyd

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were…

— Anonymous

“Only a hundred years ago the idea that an order might arise without a personal Author appeared so nonsensical to you that…

— Stanisław Lem

As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between…

— Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction.

— Marco Pantani

I'm all for natural solutions. I'm for eastern philosophies. Yoga is a good one.

— Juliette Lewis

For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.

— Carl Pfeiffer

“I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me.”

— Thomas Bernhard

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

— Charles Dickens

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

— John Bradshaw

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden.

— Joseph Hertz

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.

— Jefferson Davis

Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.

— Garrett Hardin

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

— Thomas Wolfe

“It is extremely Sad to think that while nature is talking,humankind is not listening.”

— Jd Masterson

You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.

— Walter Russell