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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

John Muir

I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.

John Muir

If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.

John Muir

No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.

John Muir

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.

John Muir

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

John Muir

In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.

John Muir

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

John Muir

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.

John Muir

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.