Nature Quotes · Page 431

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

— Napoleon Hill

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

— Hugh Hammond Bennett

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

— Laurence Sterne

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

— Archibald Alexander

“he was helpless against his own devilish nature when it came to this girl”

— Julia Quinn

“Each of Tamlin’s movements was precise and efficient, his powerfully muscled legs eating up the earth”

— Sarah J. Maas

“If a man could make the earth heaven to get you, could also make it hell for you if he couldn't get…

— M.F. Moonzajer

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

— Gore Vidal

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have…

— Thor Heyerdahl

“Families are the flowers of a garden. Each family member comes in different colors and shapes but are have the same DNA.”

— Margie Goldsmith

I am still comfortable with my body, because I'm like, What's not to be comfortable with? I mean, it's just my nature.

— Sandra Bernhard

Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.

— Kevin Hart

If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a…

— Martin Buber

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for…

— Adam Weishaupt

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and…

— Nicola Sturgeon

I can’t understand it when people say they don’t like a particular color. . . . How on earth can you not…

— Dale Chihuly

“So our problem is to explain where symmetry comes from. Why is nature so nearly symmetrical? No one has any idea why.…

— Richard P. Feynman

It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy…

— John Owen

“If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or…

— Federico Chini

By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms,…

— Erasmus Darwin

What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like…

— Henry Miller

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of…

— Edward Gibbon

There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have…

— Anais Nin

Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have…

— Tana French

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

— C. S. Lewis

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

— Max Beerbohm

If life on earth is temporary , What makes you think that your problems are permanent ?

— Ritu Ghatourey

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

— Winston Churchill

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

— Sri Aurobindo

An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

— Aeschines

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

— Peter De Vries

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

— Leon Battista Alberti

Dreams are the wanderings of the spirit though all nine heavens and all nine earths.

— Lu Yen

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the…

— Maya Angelou

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Autumn is a momentum of the natures golden beauty…, so the same it’s time to find your momentum of life”

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.

— Peter Shepherd

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth

— Apostle Paul