Nature Quotes · Page 468

“It is for this reason that there is no “natural way of life” for humans. There are only cultural choices.”

— FastReads

The value of friends has always been a natural thing. I prefer too many to too few.

— Mick Fleetwood

There isn't a problem on this earth that a doughnut cannot make better.

— Roseanne Barr

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.

— Maya Angelou

The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.

— John Peers

I really believe that women who are confident in their natural beauty are the most beautiful

— Ashley Wagner

Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.

— William Wordsworth

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when…

— Toni Morrison

When you are free enough to stop searching for freedom, you recognize that freedom is always here, it's your nature as timeless…

— Gangaji

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening…

— Philip K. Dick

“Do not suffer your good nature [...] to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public…

— George Washington

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“We yearn to be fully immersed in the weightless world of our free spirit's true home, where our playful natures return to…

— Margot Datz

I don't think you can ever get closer to the natural world, than just a man - as in mankind - in…

— Ben Fogle

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

— David Puttnam

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s…

— Napoleon Hill

“It's not that somehow we may discover something in how we view ourselves or our enviroment that we'll find suitably fillling, that…

— Janette Oke

“People", Shai said, rising to fetch another seal, "by nature attempt to exercise power over what is around them. We build walls…

— Brandon Sanderson

If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all…

— Edwin Way Teale

That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of…

— Michael Faraday

Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is…

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.

— Thomas Jefferson

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

— Jessamyn West

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

— Randy Schekman

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.

— Byron Katie

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.”

— Margaret Atwood

It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)

— Alex Scarrow

A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

— Jean Giraudoux

“The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.”

— David Mitchell

“[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

— John Ruskin

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

— Baron d'Holbach

“It is written that the earth belongs to those who have fair skins and hard but foolish hearts.”

— Jose Conrad

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

— John Hillaby

“Do not underestimate the strength it takes to be the hearth everyone turns to for warmth.”

— Megan Derr