Nature Quotes · Page 509

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

— Peter De Vries

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

— Leon Battista Alberti

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

— Winston Churchill

Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.

— Sri Aurobindo

We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the…

— Maya Angelou

Dreams are the wanderings of the spirit though all nine heavens and all nine earths.

— Lu Yen

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

— Thomas Jefferson

“she did understand the corrosive nature of guilt. It could destroy from the inside, worrying at your mind until you submitted.”

— Lisa Hartley

We're moving away from the one-dimensional nature for women. It used to be that you were known for one thing - a…

— Beth Phoenix

As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine…

— Helen Caldicott

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone.…

— Orson Scott Card

It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters…

— King Tuff

Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of…

— Annie Besant

In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down,…

— Niels Bohr

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for…

— William Penn

“Children usually have a natural curiosity about the world and everything in it until they get to school and somebody throws them…

— Joshua Neik

When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Certainly, it includes that. I want the story to be interpreted in as many ways as possible, and of course, the bad…

— Park Chan-wook

Soon,” said the crackling voice of the flame, coming from behind him, “they will fall. Soon they will fall and the star…

— Neil Gaiman

“After weaning the indigenous people's of Egypt: 'from their miserable and barbarous manners, [Osiris] taught them how to till the earth, and…

— Graham Hancock

I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand…

— John Muir

The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals…

— John Green

Machines have about as much warmth as a cube of ice. And that is why the horse is still part of our…

— Marguerite Henry

“Autumn is a momentum of the natures golden beauty…, so the same it’s time to find your momentum of life”

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.

— Peter Shepherd

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

— Elbert Hubbard

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth

— Apostle Paul

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.

— Timothy McVeigh

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

— Jeffrey Sachs

There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.

— John Ridley

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.

— Joe Wilson

“Shakespeare, the greatest of poets, was the greatest reader of Nature and life.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

— Henry David Thoreau

As journalists we are sceptical by nature, but there are some things you take on trust.

— Gavin Esler

“Sooner or later, clockwork requires each piece to accept its nature or break. Hearts are no different.”

— Robert Appleton

Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.

— Richard G. Scott

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

— Pat Conroy

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

— Charles Kingsley