Nature Quotes · Page 417

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

— George Eliot

In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.

— Chris Fussell

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if youre lucky, you get strange clues.

— Lene

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

— Robert Southey

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

— Voltaire

The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

— Ovid

Your strengths are like a force of nature. Free up and focus the forces that are already there.

— Anonymous

You don't just let a guy drop off the earth and not come together with everybody who knew him and loved him…

— Kurt Elling

Dogs are a gift to mankind. They are happy and joyful and loyal by nature. They are pure, positive energy and teach…

— Alyson Noel

“Something about a bunch of trees made people think they could cut loose. “Wherever there’s Nature, there’s assholes,” he said cheerfully.”

— Margaret Atwood

My team-mates at Chelsea have told me about the 'Kante-facts.' It is just a bit of fun. I obviously do not cover…

— N'Golo Kante

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze…

— Mitch Albom

Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.

— Harvey Rice

A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is…

— Sakyong Mipham

The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the…

— James Gustave Speth

“Genesis According to George Segal,” The Spirit brooded on the water and made The earth, and molded us out of earth. And…

— Robert Pinsky

I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it…

— Max Lucado

I feel for the first time in my life that I have really come to understand what the gospel actually is. It…

— James Jordan

“When the kids see how amazing one seed turning in to beautiful flower and transformation to a juicy red strawberries then We…

— Baris Gencel

Deliberately modifying the earth's atmosphere would be a desperate gamble with significant risks. Yet the more likely climate change is to cause…

— Michael Specter

“What Einstein seemed to understand is that intellectual growth and creativity come through embracing the dynamic nature of intelligence. Growth comes through…

— Ken Robinson

“When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is…

— John Holt

Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you…

— Colson Whitehead

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

— Charles Dickens

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

— Margaret Atwood

“But truth is stubborn. Our nature, our secret hearts can only hide for so long.”

— Susan Henderson

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates”

— Carolyn Spear

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want.

— Anonymous

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

— Charles Dudley Warner

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

— Joseph Campbell

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

— Edward Abbey

“How strange that they arrive at all, nights on planet earth.”

— Campbell McGrath

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

— John Stuart Mill

Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.

— James Ellis

Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

— Marshall McLuhan

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

— Anonymous

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

— Thomas Carlyle

Am in love with nature so am not single and if you spoil nature you are messing with my nature.

— Roxin