Nature Quote by Mildred Stapley Byne

“Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out…

— Tahir Shah

“But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Just before his death…

— Carl Sagan

“The earth does not want new continents, but new men.”

— Jules Verne

“He knew suddenly that nobody, living upon the remotest, most barren crag in the ocean, could complain of a dull landscape so long as…

— T.H. White

“Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better.”

— Gregory Maguire

“The world is exactly the same as it was before, except that Americans now realize that they are a part of it. People get…

— Peni Griffin

“He was not only the last of the great Greek philosophers, he was Europe's first great biologist.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“What we have now is but a bare remnant, an age of vast information, but spread thin like a superficial crust passing as knowledge.…

— David Grant Urban

“Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human…

— Helen Keller

“I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this exposure to every conceivable…

— Douglas Coupland

“And we are made different. On the instant. What we know, what we were, is banished by that instant, razed like a castle under…

— Jennifer Roberson