Famous Quotes & Sayings

May Sarton

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

Maya Angelou

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

Michael Gurian

Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference.

Mason Cooley

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

Mason Cooley

Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.

Mason Cooley

Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.

Mason Cooley

Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.

Mason Cooley

Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.

Mason Cooley

If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.

Mary Augusta Ward

the delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended ...

Theodore Parker

Nature is God's Old Testament.

Theodore Parker

It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.

Theodore Roethke

I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.

Theodore Roethke

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Theodore Roosevelt

If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play.

Theodore Roosevelt

We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted.

Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.

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.

the comprehensive nature of the work that they do.

The competitive nature comes out down the stretch.

Miles Franklin

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

Joseph Addison

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Joseph Addison

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.