Nature Quotes · Page 394

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

— Alexander Pope

However a skillful man is at making his machine but the forces of nature are not to be taken slightly.

— Anonymous

“Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.”

— Robert Harris

“We are part of nature yet we have decided to be nicer than nature.”

— Frank Schaeffer

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

— Jim Wallis

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.

— Adrian Lyne

By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

— Henry David Thoreau

All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation…

— Albert Pike

The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy.

— Jack Kerouac

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

— Ed Greenwood

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles,…

— Reese Witherspoon

We need the nature so we can be, we have plenty to learn from it. In our ignorance we continuously try to…

— Mariana Fulger

“I vow that you shall always have a place by my hearth and meat and mead at my table, and pledge to…

— George R.R. Martin

Having to squeeze the last drop of utility out of the land has the same desperate finality as having to chop up…

— Aldo Leopold

Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen"…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Being with the president’s daughter, no matter who the president is, you are connected to the most powerful political force on earth,…

— Rufus Wainwright

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of…

— Anonymous

Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek…

— Ken Liu

“We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement…

— Leonardo da Vinci

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect…

— Bram Stoker

Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

— Deepak Chopra

“Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

— Gary Snyder

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“The notions of creation, preservation and destruction in Hindu mythology thus deal with culture, not nature.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

— Maria W. Stewart

It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.

— Mitt Romney

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.

— Isaiah

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

— Anonymous

“If human beings cannot inhabit the earth, can we live in heaven?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Atom from atom yawns as far As moon from earth, or star from star.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

— Luther Standing Bear

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

— Thomas Browne

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

— Anonymous

Hell is on earth as hell is the ending to a long loving relationship.

— Kevin McCarty

Relationships never die a natural death, they are murdered by Ego, Attitude and Arrogance.

— Anonymous