Nature Quotes · Page 437

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

— Rachel Carson

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

— Henry David Thoreau

“A mother is like nature, she appreciates her child’s every mood.”

— Debasish Mridha

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

— Murray Gell-Mann

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

— Antoine Lavoisier

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

— Frederick Lenz

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings.

— Peter Singer

My father, John Marcellus Huston, was a director renowned for his adventurous style and audacious nature.

— Anjelica Huston

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its…

— William Ellery Channing

“The wilderness is where all the creatives and prophets and system-buckers and risk-takers have always lived, and it is stunningly vibrant. The…

— Jen Hatmaker

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven…

— John Adams

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order…

— John Berger

Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to…

— Honore de Balzac

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His…

— Myles Munroe

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

— Gertrude Atherton

Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a…

— Charles Bukowski

High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things…

— John Ruskin

“The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It…

— Henry Fairfield Osborn

“True, This! — Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanters wand! —…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Nature is not what you might call predictable. And it’s not forgiving. It doesn’t care about us. The lightning is gonna go…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“When I look at the clues that indicate the nature of Jesus – born in a barn, questionable parents, spotty ancestry, common…

— Gayle D. Erwin

All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the…

— Gertrude Bell

After college, I became a geologist, mapping what lay beneath the earth's surface. I thought I had my life pretty figured out…

— John Hickenlooper

... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law…

— Edward Augustus Bowles

“But by nature, the human heart yearns most for what it cannot have.”

— Dean Koontz

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Mud in the stream. And earth in the air. Clay in my ears. And stone in my stare.

— Iris Lopez

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

— Willa Cather

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

— Mark Udall

Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.

— Marilyn Ferguson

“It is the nature of my dreams that determine the fabric of my existence - rjs”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

“Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell.”

— George Monbiot

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

— Angelus Silesius

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

— Emma Goldman

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

I think having pets helps sensitize people to the natural world.

— Glenn Close

“We are put on this earth for a purpose and it isn't to serve ourselves.”

— Karen Beaudin

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

— Geoffrey Chew

No other single influence has had so great an impact on this earth as the life of Jesus the Christ.

— Ezra Taft Benson