Nature Quotes · Page 466

Sleep, nature's rest, divine tranquility, That brings peace to the mind.

— Ovid

We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

— George Washington

A spark in the sun, this tiny flower has roots deep in the cool earth.

— Harry Behn

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

— Henry David Thoreau

“A mother is like nature, she appreciates her child’s every mood.”

— Debasish Mridha

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

— Rachel Carson

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

— Murray Gell-Mann

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

— Antoine Lavoisier

“The true measure of a virtuous life is how we redeem time by deeds and the exemplification and personification of principles that…

— Oliver Harper

“God’s real and subtle nature must be clear of distinctions: a glass of spring-water, tasteless, odourless, merely refreshing: and surely its appeal…

— Lawrence Durrell

The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to…

— Jack Kornfield

There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always…

— Peter Tosh

“Nature is not some entity. Nature means coming together of circumstances. The effort of circumstances coming together is nature and the circumstances…

— Dada Bhagwan

By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him…

— Matthew Henry

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

— William Weld

Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?

— Frances Arnold

Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.…

— Laozi

Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives…

— Jonathan Swift

To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political…

— Henry David Thoreau

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it…

— Thomas Aquinas

“The night is always old. He'd walked too often down dark streets in the secret hours and felt the night stretching away,…

— Terry Pratchett

Several things can throw me into that space where I feel energetic and peaceful at the same moment - often things that…

— Richard Brancatisano

In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see…

— John William Draper

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

— Frederick Lenz

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

— Willa Cather

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

— Mark Udall

“But by nature, the human heart yearns most for what it cannot have.”

— Dean Koontz

My father, John Marcellus Huston, was a director renowned for his adventurous style and audacious nature.

— Anjelica Huston

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings.

— Peter Singer

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Mud in the stream. And earth in the air. Clay in my ears. And stone in my stare.

— Iris Lopez

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

— Emma Goldman

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.

— Marilyn Ferguson

“It is the nature of my dreams that determine the fabric of my existence - rjs”

— rassool jibraeel snyman

“Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell.”

— George Monbiot

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

— Angelus Silesius

I think having pets helps sensitize people to the natural world.

— Glenn Close