Nature Quotes About Beauty & the Outdoors – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

Robin Morgan

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

Stendhal

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

Armistead Maupin

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Paul Tsongas

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

Jim Fowler

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

William Graham Sumner

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

John Stuart Mill

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

Christopher Lasch

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

H. G. Wells

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Dante Alighieri

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Doug Larson

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

Dixie Lee Ray

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

Margaret Mead

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

Marquis de Sade

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

John Muir

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

Norman Ralph Augustine

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

Richard Russo

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

Beatrice Wood

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Kurt Vonnegut

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Carl Sagan

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Christopher Dawson

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Heinrich Heine

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Henry A. Kissinger

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

Paul Getty

Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.

Walter Lang

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Paracelsus

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Christopher Morley

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Maurice Strong

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

Oswald Chambers

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Benjamin Disraeli

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Tennessee Williams

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Jacob Bronowski

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

Ellsworth Huntington

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

Camille Paglia