Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Lindbergh

If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch with nature more than science. ... Too few natural areas remain; both by intent and by indifference we have insulated ourselves from the wilderness that produced us.

Charles Lindbergh

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Bliss Carman

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

Bill Porter

When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

Edith Sitwell

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

Earl Warren

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

David Hockney

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

David Hume

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

David Hume

Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

David Hume

While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain.

David Douglas

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

Barry Commoner

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

Rachel Carson

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Dennis Cardoza

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

Edward Gibbon

Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

Edgar Cayce

Those who understand nature walk with God.

Edgar Cayce

Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.

Ed Wood

The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death.

Edwin Way Teale

Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.

Edwin Way Teale

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I sleep with beneficent and watchful care; and it takes me at last to its great bosom, where my ashes mingle with their kindred dust.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

Bertolt Brecht

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

Bernard de Mandeville

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

Carolyn Wells

At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.

Carl Guardino

The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.

Carl Guardino

The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.

Carl Guardino

High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

Alan Kay

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Charlotte Bronte

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Charlie Cook

The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other species to be our close "relations" which many indigenous peoples still do, couldn't be more alien to most of us.