Nature Quotes · Page 409

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

— Martin Cruz Smith

“A volley of hailstones began abruptly, filled the woods with a frenzied percussion & ended on the sudden.”

— David Mitchell

Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed.

— Laozi

“If the screams of all earth's living creatures were one scream of pain, surely it would shake the stars.”

— P.D. James

“He smelled like grass and warm earth, like smoke and semen and horses.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Heaven is space in universe that has unique laws of nature.”

— Toba Beta

“People waste time to bring circumstances together. Nature itself brings circumstances together.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.

— Jeff Goodell

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For…

— Michael J Cohen

I try to exercise in nature, and I try to play golf once a month. The last time I played golf with…

— Shinzo Abe

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the…

— Anonymous

The doctor is the servant and the interpreter of nature. Whatever he thinks or does, if he follows not in nature's footsteps…

— Giorgio Baglivi

“Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface. I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed.”

— Toba Beta

“everybody needs help in some way, we are a community on earth, giving & receiving, ebbing & flowing, reflecting, even tough lessons can help”

— Jay Woodman

Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I…

— Peter Hollingworth

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves,…

— Jethro Tull

What is clear is that the earth is mandating that the human community assume a responsibility never assigned to any previous generation...Our…

— Thomas Berry

“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is…

— Scotty Smith

Jesus didn't come to earth to establish a new religion. He came to restore a broken relationship. He came to make the…

— Anonymous

“What is natural selection? Do organisms develop due to an environment, or does the environment only trigger the potential to evolve in…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Natural understanding can take the place of almost every degree of culture, but no culture can take the place of natural understanding.…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity.…

— David Suchet

“It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete…

— Alfred Tennyson

“There are things in heaven and earth that even philosophers have never dreamed about.”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

— Barry Lopez

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

— Robin Williams

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

— Gordon Ramsay

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

— Black Elk

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

— Rebecca West

I've had many challenges - every entrepreneur does - it's the nature of the beast.

— Richard Branson

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

— Philip Pullman

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

— Auguste Rodin

Dryden's literature helps us to the study of the human nature.

— RMKATTA

I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet.

— Cornel Wilde

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

— Joseph Conrad

The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

— Sitting Bull

Get a composter and let nature breakdown your compostable trash and use the remains as mulch for your plants.

— Gretchen Bleiler

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

— Thomas Hood

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

— Alexander Pope