Top 1000 Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Talking about myself is difficult for me. It's anti my true nature.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

I think I've got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can't see why other people can't be like that.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.