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"753 Nature Quotes

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
Black Blue Green Grey
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Books Lore Men More
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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Problems Survival Nuclear Catastrophe
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I am an environmentalist, but I'm not a wacko environmentalist. I believe that mankind and nature can live side-by-side for the mutual benefit of both.

Environmentalist Believe Mankind Nature
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The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

Solution Energy Nature
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Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Body Present Tremendous Stimulation
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One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

Man Excels Arms
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Against Animal Basic Being
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It means zero to be against greed

Against Greed Means Zero
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Time flies never to be recalled.

Time Flies Recalled
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Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Gives Hanged Man Nature
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The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
Bee Bird Child Door
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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Happened Analysis Bad Good
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Links Love Draws Element
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The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

Profoundly Atomic Universe Raindrop
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Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

Stuff Historically Concentrated Universe
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At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.

Extreme Temperature Stars Survive
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From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Positivist Mysterious View Object
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Long before the awakening of thought on earth, manifestations of cosmic energy must have been produced which have no parallel today.

Awakening Earth Manifestation Product
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What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.
Imponderable Greater Handle
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Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Man Entirely Mankind Unrelated
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Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other's encroachments.

Morality Empirical Defense Society
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To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Discover Deep Nature Caveman
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Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

Death Represent Physical Passage
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There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

Terrifying People Soon
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

One Women Men Die
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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Loneliness Ultimate Poverty
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Medicine Consist Amusing Nature
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Speaks Understands Whom Metaphysics
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Natural Right Pens Peril
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You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.

Cannot Change Person Them
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I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies.

After Commercials Did First
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I take people the way they are. You could work all your life to change them, and they never will. What's the point? They need to be who they are.

AllYourLife Change Could Life
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I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

Been Every Full Getting
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

Reason Arrogance Betrays Intelligence
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The wildest colts make the best horses.

Best Horses Make Wildest
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Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.
Place Scale Measured Bodies
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Streams and mountains never stay the same.

Stream Mountain Stay Same
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Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.
Nature Appears Chaotic Complex
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

Know Understanding Noble Sentiments
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Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.

Grandeur Universe Meaning Admit
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The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

All-Out Eagles Fall Good
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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Fear Nature Descend Destruction
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Frustration and unrest can come easily when the future is unclear. Don’t be afraid to talk to those you love and trust. Sometimes just putting thoughts out in the universe, and having someone listen, can subdue stress tremendously.

Frustration Unrest Unclear Afraid
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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

Natural Virtue Sex Pitiful
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confused
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Desire is the essence of a man.
Desire Essence Man
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Absurd Contrary Nature Reason
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Does Effect Exists Follow
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Arising Highly Himself Man
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