Nature Quotes · Page 461

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

— Italo Svevo

When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.

— Anthony Trollope

Females are the most manipulative people on the face of this earth, but damn I sure cannot resist them.

— Anonymous

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

— Kurt Vonnegut

They shouldnt exist. Their existence goes against nature.

— Jacob Black

“Try this: Live as closely to nature as possible. Create. Love. Everything else is superfluous. - Dharma ”

— Sophie McKeand

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

— Marcus Aurelius

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down

— Stephen Stills

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of…

— Bertrand Russell

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of…

— Francis Bacon

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it the Reproduction of what the senses perceive…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The happiest people on earth are not those who live on their terms, but those who change their terms for the one…

— Anonymous

I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.

— Sophia Loren

The natural geopolitical arrangement is for Europe to be part of Eurasia, especially for Germany to develop trade and investment relationships with…

— Michael Hudson

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid…

— John Wallis

We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and…

— Vance Havner

I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

“Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the…

— Steven Pressfield

The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.…

— Lewis Thomas

“As the systems theorist Fritjof Capra points out, humanity's social, political, economic, and environmental plights are all manifestations of a cultural crisis…

— Alex Gerber Jr

With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which…

— Sheri S. Tepper

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth.…

— Cassandra Clare

Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed…

— Henry David Thoreau

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own.…

— John C. Calhoun

“Every man wants commendation, so do not just commend your boss, commend those who are under you.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

— John Steinbeck

Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity.

— Khalil Gibran

Someday I’d like to see something rise up out of the earth –just for the sake of variety.

— David Eddings

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

— Sydney Pollack

I think marriage is a cultural thing - it's my opinion that nature doesn't tell someone to get married.

— Abhay Deol

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

— C. S. Lewis

I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.

— John Frusciante

“God has given us the Spirit of boldness, so that even in the wilderness, we can be dauntless.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth.

— William Shakespeare

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

— Joni Mitchell

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

— Bram Stoker

“...the closest thing to god on this earth is a woman's body...”

— Rupi Kaur

“Summer is a gentleman: slowly warming the earth at length before undressing her in the fall.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones