Nature Quotes · Page 727

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature

— Carl Sagan

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

— Plutarch

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact…

— Ruth St. Denis

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate…

— Ivan Turgenev

“Before God the work of man will be judged by the spirit in which it is done, not by the nature of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think it's every artist's dream to create something that will endure, something that people will listen to until there are no…

— Jim James

There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness,…

— Laozi

“One of the old Hermetic Masters wrote, long ages ago: "He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe…

— Three Initiates

“For the first time there appeared on earth kings, dictators, high priests, emperors, prime ministers, presidents, governors, mayors, generals, admirals, police chiefs,…

— David Christian

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused,…

— Dean Koontz

“There is nothing to fear on earth but sin. Prison and death are nothing compared to a guilty conscience. If we are…

— Christoph von Schmid

“I’m broken. We’re all broken and right now we’re all isolated within that brokenness. The cure for the loneliness is connection—connection with…

— L.M. Browning

Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of…

— Albert Pike

People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality…

— Wendell Berry

Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn,…

— Daniel Levitin

He has made peace with himself, as Isaac the Syrian says, and heaven and earth have made peace with him. He is…

— Tito Colliander

Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions,…

— John James Audubon

“Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to…

— L. Frank Baum

Understanding of natural language is what sometimes is called 'AI complete,' meaning if you can really do that, you can probably solve…

— Oren Etzioni

“A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in…

— Emily St. John Mandel

Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and…

— Epicurus

I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up…

— Don Lemon

“When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom…

— Nelson Mandela

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but…

— Plotinus

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then…

— Claude Monet

“Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable”

— Elizabeth Bear

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must…

— Anonymous

“A child owes respect to a parent, but there is no natural obligation to like a parent - unless the parent makes…

— Sydney J. Harris

I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of…

— Julia Child

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him,…

— Walter Scott

“A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten…

— Charles Bukowski

Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our…

— Neil Strauss

“Nothing in nature happens voluntarily. Everything is forced to happen. There is a hidden hand that forces things to move.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Yes, the sound of water, the voice of the wind - completely foreign to human passions. All the other sounds of this…

— Joseph Conrad

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited…

— Alexander Smith

For us, every day is Earth Day. It's like with Women's Day recently, I said, "Every day is women's day - we're…

— Maria Cornejo

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human…

— Jaron Lanier