Nature Quotes · Page 448

At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I grew up on a farm, and I had good, natural South Tyrolean food.

— Armin Zoggeler

“Nature is an old school, frequented by hippies on weekends.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

What belongs to nature is already originated in perfect view.

— Voeun Tivea

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

— Halldór Laxness

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

— Bryan Procter

The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

— Randy Alcorn

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

— Confucius

“When you're young, you say what you feel. When you're adult, you speak what you think. When you grow old, you listen…

— Toba Beta

“It is the feeling of never knowing what we want that truly drives us all mad… Holding things because we think in…

— Christopher Poindexter

Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement

— Stephen Jay Gould

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at…

— Lewis Thomas

“Cheesecake packs a sensual wallop unlike anything in the natural world because it is a brew of megadoses of agreeable stimuli which…

— Steven Pinker

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.

— Thomas Berry

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back…

— Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore,…

— Thurston Moore

“[There's] one... thing I can tell you about human nature: beautiful people are the last ones you want to befriend. Beautiful people…

— Amy Kathleen Ryan

The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the…

— Clint Eastwood

Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods…

— Pope John Paul II

“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their…

— Ramon Ravenswood

“The nations of the earth through the centuries of time have waged war to gain territory. I think ours is the only…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Air and earth form an anthill traversed, level upon level, by roads live with traffic. Air trains, ground trains, underground trains, people…

— Robert Musil

“The unstated premise that nature is nice lies behind many of the objections to the Darwinian theory of human sexuality. Carefree sex…

— Steven Pinker

Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever…

— Peter Mayle

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

— Aristotle

“Happiness is the natural state of being alive. Being alive is being happy.”

— Niyaz Ahmed

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever.

— David Zindell

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

— Ilya Ehrenburg

Nature is really important because it's a manifestation of love that hasn't been run through human minds.

— Ram Dass

The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.

— Albert Schweitzer

“What if our existence in this earth is actually death, and when we die, we are truly alive?”

— Anoir Ou-Chad

I have a natural curiosity about the world, and I just love to talk.

— Danielle Campbell

My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.

— Lady Hester Stanhope

“Some of the most important moments in life are those spent alone, in quiet communion with nature.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.”

— Alexandre Dumas

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

— Francis Bacon

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

— Jules Renard

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

— D. H. Lawrence

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

— John Henry Newman

Happiness is the only thing on earth that cannot be paid by diamonds, gold or money.

— Anonymous