Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

George Eliot

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord.

Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.

Christina Rossetti

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Christina Rossetti

Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

George R. R. Martin

She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.

George Carlin

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Gene Tierney

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

Frank Waters

The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great breathing mountains expand and contract. The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. From the very beginning, throughout all its cataclysmic upthrusts and deep sea submergences, the planet Earth seems to have maintained an ordered rhythm.

George Edward Woodberry

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Ezra Pound

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

Eugene Wigner

The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which permits the complicated nature of the world to be blamed on something which is called accidental and thus permits him to abstract a domain in which simple laws can be found.

Francis Bacon

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

Francis Bacon

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Francis Bacon

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

Francis Bacon

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Francis Bacon

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

Gretel Ehrlich

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.

Gretel Ehrlich

June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.

Gretel Ehrlich

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

Gil Scott-Heron

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

Harriet Martineau

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

Horace Bushnell

Education is only second to nature.

Ian Anderson

Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

Hugh Miller

Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simply the key by which myriads of these signs, hitherto indecipherable, can be unlocked and perused, and thus a new province added to the poetical domain.

Horace

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.