Nature Quotes · Page 500

“When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.”

— John Muir

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

— John Steinbeck

The new earth will complete God's program. It will be what God intended for Adam and Eve in Eden.

— Paul P. Enns

“Can you control nature? No so don’t try to control me… just let me run my course”

— Kaleeca Griffin

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

— Stephen Crane

The interests of the corporation state are to convert all the riches of the earth into dollars.

— William O. Douglas

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

— Joyce Meyer

“There is no gift of principles, you must apply them if you want to move forward.”

— Patience Johnson

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he…

— Lucy Larcom

I did think that it'd be truly cool to be a foreign correspondent, and it was. There is a degree of freedom…

— David E. Sanger

There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

However exquisite the contours or the colours of clouds, trees, rivers or hills, may be in themselves, they must be sacrificed if…

— Walter J. Phillips

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces…

— Leon Trotsky

“And the sunlight claps the earth, And the moonbeam kiss the sea, What is all these sweet work worth, If thou kiss…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“In learning to learn again, we can learn of this wisdom and allow our children (and so ourselves) to become the free,…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own.…

— Ban Ki-moon

“We must work hard at overcoming the natural tendency to see causal connections and other patterns where there are none by examining…

— Robert Carroll

A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a…

— T. S. Eliot

“Rather, the incarnation of the eternal Son of God was prefigured or foreshadowed in God’s appearances on earth, his active involvement in…

— Glenn R. Kreider

“I become a transparent eyeball,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in “Nature.” “I am nothing; I see all.” Lord Byron called it “the…

— Michael Finkel

“Science too proceeds by lantern-flashes; it explores nature's inexhaustible mosiac piece by piece. Too often the wick lacks oil; the glass panes…

— Jean-Henri Fabre

There are no infidels anywhere but on earth: there are none in heaven, and there are none in hell. Atheism is a…

— Charles Spurgeon

The twisty nature of psychic attack - are you being attacked, or did you bring this attack on yourself? - speaks to…

— Heidi Julavits

“The clouds looked like silent travelers headed for the edge of the earth.”

— Haruki Murakami

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

— Rita Mae Brown

I'd love you to the end of the earth but the earth has no end so I will love you continuously forever…

— Anonymous

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

— Miguel de Cervantes

If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

— George Hamilton

Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.

— Ram Dass

“It's the environment that rules, whether you like it or not.”

— Emma Toops

For some the fairest thing on the dark earth is Thermopylae, And the Spartan phalanx lowering lances to die.

— Sappho

“We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space.”

— Anonymous

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

— William Wordsworth

“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

— Ellen Glasgow

“It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A journey through nature is always a road thatleads to self-discovery.”

— Toni Sorenson