Nature Quotes · Page 440

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

— Franz Grillparzer

Nature, our father and mother, gave us all we have got. The state, our elder brother, swipes the lot.

— Piet Hein

Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

— Thomas A. Edison

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

— Thomas Aquinas

I was relying on a kind of natural transition - the transitions made by someone who is slightly deranged.

— Joan Didion

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

— Ellen Glasgow

“Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“We must stop treating the environment possessively, and as an expendable commodity.”

— Bryant McGill

It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps…

— Thomas Hobbes

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious…

— Mark Twain

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

— Isabel Allende

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution…

— John Adams

“Get rid of the idea that everyone has to like you! Even if you were the most delicious apple on earth, get…

— Richard Spinos

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one…

— Plato

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

— Marcel Proust

"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason…

— Elliott Sober

“At the side of the house he scraped scales of fungus off the shingles. His basement smelled of mildew, his eyes stinging…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not…

— J. C. Ryle

“To a wandering man in the wilderness a back trail must be as important as that ahead, for it might be the…

— Louis L'Amour

I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of…

— Rita Mae Brown

Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously,…

— Umberto Eco

The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front…

— Tim Field

The nature of a breakthrough is for you to stand on what you've gotten, what you've loved, what's been important to you,…

— Werner Erhard

We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed…

— John Wesley Powell

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

— Pablo Picasso

I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

— Patricia Moyes

“You are the earth that I will stand upon. You are the words that I will sing.”

— Ed Sheeran

I am inspired and affected by Aspen, the light and the landscape and the natural world.

— Wangechi Mutu

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

— Alexander Hamilton

I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature.

— Werner Herzog

Love is nature's LSD. You're going to see things that aren't really there.

— Dov Davidoff

Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.

— Sonam Wangchuk

It doesn't really matter how rich you are, we're all just renting here on earth! It all belongs to the Lord.

— Louie Giglio

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

— Ernie Pyle

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

— Alexander Pope

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

— Chanakya

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

— Gordon W. Allport

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

— Seneca the Younger

The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.

— Marquis de Sade