Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles Darwin

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

Barry Humphries

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

Brooks Atkinson

Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke. In the world of birds a symposium on the purpose of life would be inconceivable. They do not need it. We are not that self-reliant. We are the ones who have lost our way.

Edward Young

Take God from nature, nothing great is left.

Edward Young

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Edward Young

Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.

Edward Young

Nature delights in progress; in advance.

Edward Young

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Edmund Burke

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Eckhart Tolle

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

Conan O'Brien

In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN.

E. V. Lucas

Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

Carl Honore

We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.

Gerry Harvey

That's not in my nature to run away - I'll stand up and fight.

Franz Kline

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.

Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.

Eugene Wigner

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Ellsworth Kelly

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

Fairuza Balk

I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.

Eduardo Galeano

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

Albert Camus

Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.