Nature Quotes · Page 457

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

— George Bernard Shaw

I worry about the environment. I'm very aware of what I eat, for example.

— Cree Summer

Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.

— Kalpana Chawla

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

— Toni Morrison

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.

— Martin Luther

Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.

— Robert Breault

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

— Henry James

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral…

— Thomas Jefferson

“She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She…

— Gregg Olsen

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to…

— Jim Whittaker

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little…

— Francoise Sagan

“Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows…

— George Eliot

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a…

— Herbert Gold

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be…

— Henry David Thoreau

We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us.…

— Ramana Maharshi

And I return to the coldness of this defying human nature, to the impertinence with which the losers of the Sacred Self…

— Sorin Cerin

“It's almost unbelievable when you think of it, how they live there in all that ice and sand and mountainous wilderness. Look…

— Don DeLillo

“The public interest has shifted from the nature of man to the nature of nature and to the prospects of domination its…

— Eric Voegelin

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no…

— Ovid

“The nature of immortality is a mystery,' he says, speaking so softly that we have to lean closer to hear.' But everything…

— Robin Sloan

Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite…

— Guido von List

“Exile is a dream of glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox:…

— Salman Rushdie

You want to teach all kids the skills that are on the better side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one's behavior…

— Ross W. Greene

“All Heaven and Earth Flowered white obliterate... Snow...unceasing snow”

— Hashin

“You can be a natural athlete with terrible work habits, and that ends up wasting your gifts.”

— Vernon Davis

The real beauty created by man never competes with the beauty of nature; but it only perfectly completes it!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

— Sharon Salzberg

We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.

— Jon Stewart

Every individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living.

— Joe Tye

What was in my direct environment, and the feelings I experienced there, were what I translated into my lyrics.

— Koffee

“If this is earth,' said the producer from Washington, D.C., 'I'm not interested in what heaven has to offer.”

— Karsten Heuer

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

— Jean Baudrillard

And I swear to everythin when I leave this earth its guna be on coup feet never knees in the dirt.

— Author Name

Redirecting sunlight on the earth to the moon gives you enough light so that all of humanity can see.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

“Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth”

— Augusten Burroughs

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

— Francis Bacon

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

— Douglas MacArthur

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

— John James Audubon