Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Night Shyamalan

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

None of the arguments presented were of a serious nature and do not stand up to criticism.

I want to be there with the girls, but nature called.

They were the kind and nature of expenditures that have been permitted in the past and were permitted under her contract.

Ashley Montagu

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Berthold Auerbach

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

Dr. Seuss

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

Donald Miller

And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention.

Claude Bernard

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

Dalai Lama

Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

Indira Gandhi

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

Ingrid Newkirk

[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their usefulness, or perceived usefulness, to us, but rather whether we have a right to use them at all.

Isaac Watts

The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Isaac Newton

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

Isaac Newton

Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?

Isaac Newton

All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.

Isaac Newton

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

Georges Simenon

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

Reggie Bush

I'm not too disappointed. It is the nature of the beast.

In the end, a weather problem is what stopped us, but that is the nature of ballooning.

I am an optimist by nature. But I have to admit, it's getting kind of scary.

Ezra Taft Benson

Callings in the church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place.

Jon Daniels

By the nature of his injury, it's going to be tough to get him stretched out as a starter.

Jamais Cascio

Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.

Anna Jameson

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

Stephen Jay Gould

The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).

Stephen Jay Gould

Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

Stephen Jay Gould

Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?

Stephen Jay Gould

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

Joe Sakic

It was tougher seeing Foote and Pete go because I was with them for so long, ... I've had a lot of friends in Quebec and a lot of friends here (in Colorado) that got traded away or retired. That's just the nature of sports.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the slower rhythm of nature.