Nature Quotes & Sayings :: Finest Quotes

~ But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other. ~

William H. Seward

~ Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities. ~

Arthur Keith

~ Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. ~

Joseph Butler

~ It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ~

Vladimir Nabokov

~ For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. ~

Edwin Way Teale

~ Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. ~

Honore de Balzac

~ Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. ~

Charles V

~ Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. ~

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

~ To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. ~

William Shakespeare

~ It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. ~

Vincent Van Gogh

~ With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life. ~

Frederick Soddy

~ The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. ~

Louis Agassiz

~ Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. ~

Michael Fox

~ The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. ~

Gregory Bateson

~ We can never have enough of nature. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ If we think systematically, we will stop asking, "How much is nature worth?" We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves. ~

Karl-Henrik Robèrt

~ I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain. ~

Carl Safina

~ I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain. ~

Carl Safina

~ We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves ~

E.F. Schumacher

~ A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team. ~

Pat Riley

~ A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team. ~

Pat Riley

~ A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. ~

Auguste Rodin

~ God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God. ~

Ronald Reagan

~ Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood. ~

Billy Graham

~ It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection. ~

Voltaire

~ All are but parts of one stupendous whole whose body Nature is, and God the soul. ~

Alexander Pope

~ Human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints. ~

Oswald Chambers

~ We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. ~

Clifford Geertz

~ It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time. ~

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Page : 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 >>

Quotes with keyword Nature