Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.

Charles Dickens

It was the beginning of a day in June; the deep blue sky unsullied by a cloud, and teeming with brilliant light. The streets were, as yet, nearly free from passengers, the houses and shops were closed, and the healthy air of morning fell like breath from angels, on the sleeping town.

Charles Dickens

I can see others in the sunlight; I can see our boats' crews and our athletic young men on the glistening water, or speckled with the moving lights of sunlit leaves; but I myself am always in the shadow looking on. Not unsympathetically, - God forbid! - but looking on alone, much as I looked at Sylvia from the shadows of the ruined house, or looked at the red gleam shining through the farmer's windows, and listened to the fall of dancing feet, when all the ruin was dark that night in the quadrangle.

Charles Dickens

Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.

Charles Dickens

Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.

Charles Dickens

It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.

Alan Watts

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

Alan Hovhaness

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Diane von Furstenberg

Nature is a source of strength.

Devon Werkheiser

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

David Daniels

These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that we might never be depressed.

David Suzuki

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

David R. Brower

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

David R. Brower

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

David R. Brower

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

Carter G. Woodson

If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.

Camille Paglia

There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation alter nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.

Camille Paglia

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

Camille Paglia

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

Charles Lamb

I am in love with the green earth.

Charles Baudelaire

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

Charles Baudelaire

Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.

Charles Baudelaire

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Bindi Irwin

I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

Nicolas Roeg

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.

William Shakespeare

I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.

William Shakespeare

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.

William Shakespeare

How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!

William Shakespeare

Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.

William Shakespeare

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

Nicholas Culpeper

Let your Medicine be something of the Nature of the Sign ascending.

We're so proud of the uncompromising nature of this rehabilitation.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.