Nature Quote by Walker Percy

“Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresta think that affluent Westerners often seemed…

— Walker Percy

“The respectable, like the despised, are always at the mercy of circumstances; the influences of environment and the weight of tradition are vastly important…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Poverty is a state of the mind that was created as a result of unhealthy environmental factors. When you are surrounded with unhealthy environmental…

— Uzoma Nnadi

“Someone once asked Mother Teresa how she dealt with world poverty. Do you know what she said? 'You do the thing that's in front…

— Corban Addison

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as…

— William Petty

“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Throughout history, societies have suffered from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others; and biological…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Well-being and need are purely relative concepts. There is no such thing as poverty in itself, suffering in itself, unhappiness in itself. All is…

— Alan Lightman

“The stinting poverty in which they lived was unbearable; it was destroying them. It did not mean that there was not enough to eat:…

— Doris Lessing

O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great,…

— Elijah Fenton

“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the…

— Sarah Kendzior

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

— William Hazlitt