Nature Quotes · Page 345

“It is remarkable that such delicate flowers should here adorn these wilderness paths.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“ Ocean , n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.”

— Steve Merrick

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God, angels, plants... and horseshit.

— Zero Mostel

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.

— Lord Acton

I'd rather be alone than surround myself in a fake environment.

— Martin Stubbs

We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.

— Benjamin Creme

“As such, it was clear that its only purpose was to remind the arriving shoppers of nature and beauty—presumably the same nature…

— Aurelio Voltaire

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need…

— Ramana Maharshi

Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate…

— Gregory of Nyssa

The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as…

— Susan B. Anthony

“[Our minds] were given to us for another purpose: to raise to awareness the communal reality of nature, to overcome separateness and…

— C. Christopher Smith

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary.…

— James Madison

Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good…

— Harry Browne

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of…

— John Muir

...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given,…

— Ray Bradbury

“Oedipa sat on the earth, ass getting cold, wondering whether, as Driblette had suggested that night from the shower, some version of…

— Thomas Pynchon

When I heard of the 'garden bridge' idea, it seemed so clear and powerful, the notion of using nature to scale down…

— Thomas Heatherwick

“Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form…

— Wendell Berry

“The way you treat your environment and your planet is exactly the way you deserve to be treated.”

— Muhammad Nusair

Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.

— Prince Ea

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

— Anonymous

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

— Albert Einstein

If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

— Immanuel Kant

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“We all have time to expend on what is essential to our nature.”

— Thornton Wilder

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

— Victor Hugo

“Peace is a way of constructively handling natural conflict.”

— Bryant McGill

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

— Blaise Pascal

We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Even if predictable, unfortunately certain natural disasters are and remain unavoidable and invincible.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

— Jack Kornfield

We are comfortable in this environment. Why not make ourselves comfortable over there?.

— Celine Dion

The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

— T. Boone Pickens