Nature Quotes · Page 446

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

— Charles Dudley Warner

What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.

— Dan Ariely

“Lilly-flowers nodded their half-opened heads in the grass.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.

— Juha Vaatainen

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

— Albert Camus

“You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4”

— Patience Johnson

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

— T. Boone Pickens

“Outside, the afternoon sun was an orange sliver on an icy horizon.”

— Tracy Kidder

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph…

— Walter J. Phillips

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will…

— Samuel Adams

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So…

— Richard P. Feynman

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides…

— Basil Bunting

We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and…

— Yasmine Galenorn

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature…

— Clement Greenberg

“Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the…

— James Morcan

You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your…

— Joy Williams

“allows our natural compassion to flourish. It guides us to reframe the way we express ourselves and listen to others by focusing…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine…

— Major W. Ian Thomas

We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our…

— Dennis Quaid

“He dreams he is happy; that his corporeal nature has changed; or at least that he has flown off upon a purple…

— Comte de Lautréamont

“In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest…

— Mike Svob

Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your…

— Ahmed Yassin

The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits…

— John Burroughs

“I want to save the environment. I like being green as much as the next Smurf.”

— Jarod Kintz

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

— Edvard Munch

“Periods are a period when nature forces prostitutes to go on leave.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man.

— Thomas Tredgold

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

— Laura Gilpin

Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.

— Thomas Browne

Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution

— David Attenborough

“The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This”

— John Green

There are no laws of nature; there are habits of nature.

— David Wolfe

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

— Anonymous

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

— John Bunyan

Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.

— Laozi

These black girls with natural hair who keep up with their Tumblrs.

— Childish Gambino

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

— George Henry Lewes

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

— Steven Pinker

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

— E. O. Wilson