Nature Quotes About Beauty & the Outdoors – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Chanakya

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Quentin Crisp

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Edgar Allan Poe

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

Robert Mapplethorpe

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

Sally Ride

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

Ellsworth Huntington

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Michel de Montaigne

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

Margaret Fuller

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Thomas Hardy

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

Hans Kung

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Charles Baudelaire

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Alfred North Whitehead

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Cyril Connolly

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

Titus Livius

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Marshall McLuhan

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

Sally Ride

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

William C. Bryant

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

Nicolaus Copernicus

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.

John Ashcroft

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Charles Baudelaire

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Thomas Kempis

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Henry B. Adams

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

Nicolaus Copernicus

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Lord Chesterfield

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Will Durant

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Ivan Turgenev