Nature Quotes · Page 383

Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.

— Zhuangzi

“Man thinks first before he writes to build; Nature writes first before she designs to create”

— Joey Lawsin

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.

— Stone Gossard

“Sky is proud of its bright stars; earth is proud of its bright minds!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

— Pierre de Ronsard

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

— Richard Louv

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.

— Lucretius

It is also important to understand that a hidden nature is not always an evil nature

— Alison Goodman

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should…

— Charlotte Selver

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only…

— Ramakrishna

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as…

— Alister MacKenzie

With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your…

— Sun Tzu

If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our…

— Ray Kurzweil

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with…

— Alice Walker

[Men's] natural tendencies, natural proclivities, are bad. You gotta rein that in. You gotta dial that back. You need to really raise…

— Rush Limbaugh

“The time of my departure is here. Place your hand gently on the soil beside my own, and feel the rumble of…

— Chuck Black

You're in the public eye and you get treated better than royalty, and then you're dropped down to earth with nothing. You…

— David Oakes

The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it…

— Philip Yancey

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love O Love! thou makest all things even In earth or heaven; Finding thy way through prison-bars Up to the stars; Or,…

— Sarah Flower Adams

The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature.  Mother Earth looks at us with such dull, soulless eyes, when the sunlight has died away…

— Jerome K. Jerome

I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.

— Wayne Knight

“[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Because of the nature of this industry, it's a bit dangerous to think far ahead.

— Samara Weaving

Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.

— Dave Barry

“A rebellious spiritual nature in us is a nature that is headed toward the judgment of God.”

— John M. Sheehan

The earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

— Anonymous

“A life purpose is what I’m meant to do and be while I’m here on the earth.”

— Richard J. Leider

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

— John Hales

“Why did you wish me milder? would you have me False to my nature? Rather say I play The man I am.”

— William Shakespeare

You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.

— Martha Beck

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no religion without mysteries. God Himself is the great secret of Nature.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

— E. M. Forster

“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.”

— Charles Dickens

“The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. By this truth, all appearances are empty.”

— Bodhidharma

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

— Pema Chodron