Nature Quotes · Page 415

Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.

— Anonymous

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

— Rebecca Solnit

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Even a cry in the wilderness must be acknowledged, because someone might have heard it.”

— Ilona Andrews

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

— E. O. Wilson

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

— Adolf Hitler

What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?

— Pablo Neruda

I'm down to earth; people sense that and they appreciate it.

— Drew Carey

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all…

— Cat Stevens

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness…

— Dag Hammarskjold

god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the…

— Anonymous

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

— James Lovelock

“Truth was sometimes not the same as reality—this was one of the certainties that lived in the hollow, cavey place at the…

— Stephen King

“You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two...But you…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The French have taste in all they do - which we are quite without; For Nature, that to them gave gout, To…

— Thomas Erskine

I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths,…

— Benjamin Franklin

“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of…

— Pierre Simon de Laplace

“Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover,…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling…

— Jack Kornfield

It's only when you get towards the top that people start throwing you down a rope. It's like a law of nature,…

— Adam Conover

Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. No other sort will…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You…

— Daniel Quinn

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly…

— John Muir

'Go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father, and to My God, and your…

— Gregory Palamas

We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness,

— Howard Zahniser

“Evil would be done, that was the nature of the world; that was bearable if good could also be done.”

— Cynthia Voigt

“Penitence is a temporary thing. We’re all thieves by nature and saints only by grace.”

— Anonymous

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

— Paul Haggis

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

— Benjamin Whichcote

I love my pets, and I'm a big animal lover. I also enjoy the nature and countryside.

— Amy Jackson

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

— Samuel Butler

I look at every girl, and I think, 'You're going to change my life.' I'm very down to earth at heart.

— Tristan MacManus

Nature and other human beings are something you have to respect and you need.

— Jasmila Zbanic

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

— Joan Rivers

I am never up for rain sequences because nothing can beat the excitement and thrill of natural rain.

— Erica Fernandes

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

— Thomas Szasz

Old geography studied nature. Modern geography mostly studies alternation in nature

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

— Thomas Traherne

“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”

— Blaise Pascal

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

— Friedrich Schiller