Nature Quotes · Page 487

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

— Rebecca Solnit

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?

— Pablo Neruda

I'm down to earth; people sense that and they appreciate it.

— Drew Carey

We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness,

— Howard Zahniser

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

— Paul Haggis

“Evil would be done, that was the nature of the world; that was bearable if good could also be done.”

— Cynthia Voigt

“Penitence is a temporary thing. We’re all thieves by nature and saints only by grace.”

— Anonymous

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so…

— Mahatma Gandhi

His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned…

— Luigi Pulci

You can insult me - you can judge me on the football pitch - that's normal. But don't touch my family. Don't…

— Emmanuel Adebayor

The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness…

— Charles Dickens

That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the…

— Thomas Huxley

I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate…

— Jim James

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to…

— Anonymous

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.

— Lewis Gordon Pugh

I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering,…

— Bill Blass

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“…it is certain that there are many things to which our language ascribes meaning indicative of a material substance, where simple contemplation…

— Gustav Landauer

“I am the rose of eternity, not made of water or fire, not of the wandering wind or even earth. I play…

— Jalaluddin Rumi

Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room.…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Do not look around to discover other people's ruling principles, but look straight to this, to what nature leads you, both the…

— Anonymous

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic…

— Jane Addams

I think that the question is very clear-cut, not only as a matter of ethics, but also as a matter of law,…

— Viet D. Dinh

I look at every girl, and I think, 'You're going to change my life.' I'm very down to earth at heart.

— Tristan MacManus

Nature and other human beings are something you have to respect and you need.

— Jasmila Zbanic

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

— Benjamin Whichcote

I love my pets, and I'm a big animal lover. I also enjoy the nature and countryside.

— Amy Jackson

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

— Samuel Butler

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

— Joan Rivers

I am never up for rain sequences because nothing can beat the excitement and thrill of natural rain.

— Erica Fernandes

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

— Thomas Szasz

I don't believe in the separation between mankind and nature. Mankind is nature.

— Jim Sarbh

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

— Friedrich Schiller

Old geography studied nature. Modern geography mostly studies alternation in nature

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”

— Blaise Pascal

Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

— Thomas Traherne

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

— Maurice Maeterlinck

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Her life was as finite as the earth, but her love reaches beyond the stars.”

— Jennifer St. Giles