Nature Quotes · Page 364

But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

— Abraham Cowley

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

— Alexander Pope

“Let your malcontent for a melancholy life be known, rebellion is the chaos of our nature.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

— E. O. Wilson

I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.

— Robert Frost

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

— Publilius Syrus

Science is about nature. And God, if he exists, transcends nature.

— Kenneth R. Miller

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

— Fernando Botero

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

— Ben Stein

man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal…

— Moses Finley

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before…

— Oswald Chambers

For the spiritual sense of the Word treats everywhere of the spiritual world, that is, of the state of the church in…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

— William Jennings Bryan

Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would…

— Charlie Crist

“Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.”

— Jerry DeWitt

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to…

— Dennis Weaver

“The lanterns filled the sky, pulsing with the harmonious light of fireflies, and a great host of ghosts departed from the earth…

— Heather Heffner

“I have every useless thing in the world in my house there. The only thing wanting is the necessary thing, a great…

— Marcel Proust

NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are…

— Edward Thomas

“Instead I choose love- the thing you have all forgotten. I choose love and leave you to your war... All that is…

— Lauren Kate

The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a…

— Agnes Repplier

Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world,…

— Humphry Davy

“What she read was a series of short connected lyrics, “Isis in Darkness.” The Egyptian Queen of Heaven and Earth was wandering…

— Margaret Atwood

“The division of the world which followed defined certain parts of the world as ‘nature’, that is, as savage, uncontrolled and, therefore,…

— Maria Mies

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

— Janine Benyus

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

— Emily Dickinson

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

— Jack London

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?

— Bette Midler

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.

— H. P. Blavatsky

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.

— Koren Zailckas

“Having you around is like having a piece of the North star break off and drop to earth.”

— Tess Oliver

Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.

— William K. Kershner

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

— David Attenborough

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

— Walter Raleigh

“polite society is just a paper thin veil that masks the true animal nature of man”. ”

— Dirk Patton

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

— Gregory Bateson

Every time I see a smiling person on earth, I feel the warmth of the Sun in the sky.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“there are people whose nature it is to be very much cast down by small things.”

— Teresa of Ávila