3,407 quotes
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Writer · Italian · 1469 – 1527
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Luigi Pirandello
Playwright · Italian · 1867 – 1936
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
Marquis de Sade
Novelist · French · 1740 – 1814
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Clergyman · American · 1869 – 1942
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
William Butler Yeats
Poet · Irish · 1865 – 1939
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
Herbert Simon
Scientist · American · 1916 – 2001
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
Goldwin Smith
Historian · Canadian · 1823 – 1910
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet · Indian · 1861 – 1941
There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
Josiah Strong
Clergyman · American
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Rudyard Kipling
Writer · English · 1865 – 1936
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
Mahmoud Abbas
Statesman · Palestinian · b. 1935
Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
Historian · American · 1884 – 1968
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Charlotte Bronte
Novelist · British · 1816 – 1855
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Sigmund Freud
Psychologist · Austrian · 1856 – 1939
Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.
Jack Kilby
Scientist · American · 1923 – 2005
God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
Archibald Alexander
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
Jonathan Carroll
Author · American · b. 1949
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
Sociologist · Canadian · 1911 – 1980
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
Gale Norton
Public Servant · American · b. 1954
I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.
Mike Thompson
Politician · American · b. 1951
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer · French · 1613 – 1680
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Herbert Spencer
Philosopher · English · 1820 – 1903
If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
Franz Grillparzer
Poet · Austrian · 1791 – 1872
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
John Ralston Saul
Author · Canadian · b. 1947
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
James Lovelock
Scientist · English · b. 1919
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet · English · 1792 – 1822
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
Alice Meynell
Poet · English · 1847 – 1922
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
William Wordsworth
Poet · English · 1770 – 1850
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Orison Swett Marden
Writer · American
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Thomas Aquinas
Theologian · Italian
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch
Artist · Norwegian · 1863 – 1944
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank
Environmentalist · American · 1849 – 1926
Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.
The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.
Dick Wolf
Producer · American · b. 1946
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato
Philosopher · Greek
Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
Bruce Beresford
Director · Australian · b. 1940
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
Charles Horton Cooley
Sociologist · American
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Educator · Polish · 1907 – 1972
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
Thomas Malthus
Economist · English · 1766 – 1834
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
Scientist · American · 1920 – 1992
Now you're coming back to Earth, and things are getting more and more dynamic.
Duane G. Carey
Astronaut · American · b. 1957
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
Virgil
Poet
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
Gore Vidal
Novelist · American · b. 1925
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
Keith Henson
Scientist · American
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Augustus Hare
Writer · English · 1834 – 1903
The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Explorer · French · 1910 – 1997
