Famous Quotes & Sayings

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."

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.

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

John Collison

Marketplaces by their nature tend to grow faster than most other companies.

Black Elk

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

Che Guevara

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.

Carl Jung

I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.

Carl Jung

Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

Carl Jung

The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people. But to know what people are, one must follow nature and go alone, admitting the importance of the unexpected. Still, nothing is possible without love. . . . For love puts one in a mood to risk everything, and not to withhold important elements.

Ludwig von Mises

Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.

Martin Parr

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.

Sebastian Horsley

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

William Shakespeare

Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

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.

Sophia Bush

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

E. F. Schumacher

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

E. F. Schumacher

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature...

We'll let nature take its course, and time will tell where he winds up.

Jimmy Carter

I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.

Jimmy Carter

We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect of changing our basic ways of living. This change will either be made on our own initiative in a planned and rational way, or forced on us with chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature.

John Cage

The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in the sciences.

John Cage

What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

James Taylor

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.