Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Eno

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

Diane von Furstenberg

Nature is a source of strength.

Devon Werkheiser

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

David Daniels

These mountains were given to us by the Great Chief so that we might never be depressed.

David Suzuki

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

David R. Brower

True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.

David R. Brower

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

David R. Brower

We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.

Carter G. Woodson

If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Kristin Armstrong

Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet.

Jane Austen

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Jane Austen

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Janine Benyus

Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.

Janine Benyus

For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.

Janine Benyus

The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.

Janine Benyus

The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any species that ignores this law winds up destroying its community to support its own expansion.

Janine Benyus

In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.

Janine Benyus

A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.

Janine Benyus

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.

Alan Watts

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

Alan Hovhaness

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Charles Lamb

I am in love with the green earth.

Charles Baudelaire

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

Charles Baudelaire

Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.

Charles Baudelaire

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

We've always been a team which, by it's very nature, never tries to draw. I prefer another style, our style, which is to always try to win.

Ben Jonson

Wherein the graver had a strife / With Nature to out-do the life.

William Shakespeare

The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And Nature must obey necessity.

Nicolas Roeg

Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.

Edmund Burke

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Eckhart Tolle

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

Brian Greene

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.