Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodor Adorno

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

Terry Pratchett

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

Margaret Mead

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Margaret Fuller

Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.

Margaret Fuller

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Kevin Starr

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

Michael Fox

The missing link between animals and a truly humane mankind is man himself, who does not yet see himself as a part of the world, claiming it instead for himself.

Michael Faraday

When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which enables those most powerful in themselves, most destructive to the world's creatures and economy, to dwell associated together and be made subservient to the wants of creation, I rise from the contemplation more than ever impressed with the wisdom, the beneficence, and grandeur, beyond our language to express, of the Great Disposer of us all.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Michael Tippett

Nature has different times.

Michael Tilson Thomas

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

Ray Bradbury

He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.

Rand Paul

Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?

Eric Hoffer

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby the tilt of the social landscape.

Eric Hoffer

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Eric Hoffer

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

Eric Hoffer

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

Eric Berne

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

James Anthony Froude

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

James Anthony Froude

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

James Anthony Froude

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

Henry Adams

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Henry Adams

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.

Henry Beston

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.

Henry Beston

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.

Henry Beston

When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness nor integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.

Henry Beston

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

Henry Beston

Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life - all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.

Henry Beston

Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Henry David Thoreau

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.