Famous Quotes & Sayings

The wonderful thing about nature is its resilience,

Larry Johnson

We just started our investigation, ... The SBI is here now, and it is suspicious in nature.

When allegations of such a serious nature have been made, they need to be probed. If nothing comes out, then that will be the end of it. We are only trying to find out the truth.

We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.

Karl Marx

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Josh Earnest

The President and first lady did hold a private party at the White House over the weekend, but given the private nature of that event, I don't have a lot of details to discuss from here.

Georgia O'Keeffe

A flower touches everyone's heart.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

Grant Hill

Even with medicine, you can do everything right and something can happen. That's just the nature of it.

It's a shame. It's just the nature of the game.

Jim Calhoun

It's a tough road for anybody. That's just the nature of the schedule. Everybody's doing it.

Ron Rivera

It's football. It's kind of the nature of the game, the nature of the beast, and we'll find out.

It's the nature of the business, I guess.

John Lasseter

It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.

Hal Borland

Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.

Hal Borland

There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as wells as bowers and grassy banks.

Hal Borland

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Hal Borland

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Hal Borland

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

Gerard De Nerval

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Herbert Spencer

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Herman Melville

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

Herman Melville

If not against us, nature is not for us.

Herman Melville

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Herman Melville

Nature is nobody's ally.

Henry David Thoreau

The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as the soil is not exhausted. Alas for human culture! little is to be expected of a nation, when the vegetable mould is exhausted, and it is compelled to make manure of the bones of its fathers. There the poet sustains himself merely by his own superfluous fat, and the philosopher comes down on his marrow-bones.

Henry David Thoreau

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.

Henry David Thoreau

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.

Henry David Thoreau

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

Henry David Thoreau

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

Henry David Thoreau

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.