Nature Quotes · Page 508

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

— William Ellery Channing

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

— Victor Hugo

“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings”

— John Gillespie MaGee Jr

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

— Walter Bagehot

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

— Eric Hoffer

No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature.

— Guy Finley

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

— Henry David Thoreau

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

— Cullen Hightower

“She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.”

— James Lileks

“prepare for great battles. Know that you are now on a great stage where all heaven and earth are watching you. Fight…

— Maria Faustina Kowalska

If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find…

— Robert Bateman

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they…

— Pablo Neruda

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

— Andre Malraux

We're a pop band for the most part and the nature of our songs are fun. We've never taken ourselves that serious…

— Steve Harwell

I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is…

— Thomas Aquinas

There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance…

— Linn Thomas

“Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love.…

— Sigmund Freud

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread…

— Charlotte Bronte

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the…

— Oscar Wilde

“As our God Most High fights, we flourish. As err his people flourish, our God strikes the killing blow. The battles in…

— Lisa Bevere

The nature of love had totally escaped her until now. She had thought that if you lost it, you could never get…

— Alice Hoffman

“When you start reconnecting with these missing [parts of yourself], you tend to realize that, until then, you had never really been…

— Samuel Sagan

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

— John Muir

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

— Alexander Pope

You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.

— Valentina Zelyaeva

“When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.”

— Mary Shelley

“Each of Tamlin’s movements was precise and efficient, his powerfully muscled legs eating up the earth”

— Sarah J. Maas

“he was helpless against his own devilish nature when it came to this girl”

— Julia Quinn

“If a man could make the earth heaven to get you, could also make it hell for you if he couldn't get…

— M.F. Moonzajer

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

— Hugh Hammond Bennett

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

— Napoleon Hill

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

— Laurence Sterne

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

— Archibald Alexander

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

— Max Beerbohm

If life on earth is temporary , What makes you think that your problems are permanent ?

— Ritu Ghatourey

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

— Gore Vidal

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

— C. S. Lewis

An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

— Aeschines