Famous Quotes & Sayings

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

Barry Lopez

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

Berthe Morisot

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Benoit Mandelbrot

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.

That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel,

Johnny Pesky

That's the word I always had for him. He had that smooth way about him, that pleasant nature. He never screamed or hollered. And he never ripped a player because he didn't have to. He'd just tell you what he was seeing, and you could make your own opinion.

That's the nature of the game, ... Just be ready, be prepared for anything. And today, pretty much everything happened.

E. O. Wilson

It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature.

Spencer Abraham

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

Jeff Bagwell

I can't just go away. That's not in my nature.

It also occurred to me, what's the nature of the emergency? They did not point that out.

Robert Wilson

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

Because of the nature of a test, you're doing everything for the first time. And you realize that there is always something nobody's ever thought of.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

He was all about nature. Phil was one of the most magnificent people you could ever have met.

He turned and shouted at me not to run. I just had to go. It's not my nature to stay.

Charles Kingsley

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Charles Kingsley

Nature's deepest laws, her own true laws, are her invisible ones.

Charles Kingsley

You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.

Charles Darwin

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

Charles Darwin

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.

Charles Darwin

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

Charles Darwin

We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

Charles Darwin

Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color.

Charles Darwin

Nature will tell you a direct lie if she can.

Charles Darwin

We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.

Charles Darwin

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.