Nature Quotes - Page 140

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

"I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.

But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.

One can never study nature too much and too hard

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going

From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP

Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare

As you love the Earth, so shall she love you.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes

Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.

I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to those of the bed.

The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.

The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.

That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity; in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization

Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.