Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joni Mitchell

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

Khalil Gibran

Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.

Khalil Gibran

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

Napoleon Hill

Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.

Ludovico Ariosto

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

Louis Aragon

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Louis D. Brandeis

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

Lord Byron

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

Lord Byron

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

Lord Kelvin

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

Loren Eiseley

Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone.

Loren Eiseley

Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand.

Loren Eiseley

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going about beyond the reach of rivers?

Loren Eiseley

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

Loren Eiseley

Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit--some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.

Malcolm Forbes

I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of our national concern for the ecology. This concern must not be so misguided, misdirected, misused that it serves to stop economic growth, to bankrupt companies, to stifle new development, new jobs, new horizons. In fighting new pollution and stemming present pollution, exciting, sometimes costly means and methods exist and others will evolve. But blanket legislative naysaying to expanding power and energy sources is stupid, self-defeating.

Malcolm Forbes

Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? Will towns tole lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants?... I think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. The answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions.

Mahatma Gandhi

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

Mahatma Gandhi

The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

Mahatma Gandhi

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

Mahatma Gandhi

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

Northrop Frye

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

Norman MacCaig

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

Orison Swett Marden

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Orison Swett Marden

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Orison Swett Marden

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Norton Juster

To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.

Ellen Glasgow

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

Ellen G. White

Nature is the mirror of divinity.