Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Acton

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

John Clare

Wildness is my suiting scene.

M. Russell Ballard

Men and women in all parts of the world have a desperate need to take time from their demanding routines of everyday life and to quietly observe God's miracles taking place all around them. Think of what would happen if all of us took time to look carefully at the wonders of nature that surround us and devoted ourselves to learning more about this world that God created for us!

Luther Burbank

The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man. . .

Luther Burbank

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Luther Burbank

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Matthew Arnold

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

Matthew Arnold

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

Maya Angelou

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Max Beerbohm

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

Max Beerbohm

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Marilynne Robinson

Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

Maria Montessori

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

Maria Montessori

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

Matsuo Basho

The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.

Karl Marx

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Josh Earnest

The President and first lady did hold a private party at the White House over the weekend, but given the private nature of that event, I don't have a lot of details to discuss from here.

Georgia O'Keeffe

A flower touches everyone's heart.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

Leonardo da Vinci

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Leonardo da Vinci

Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

Leonardo da Vinci

When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.

Leonardo da Vinci

What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

Leonardo da Vinci

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea...

Leonardo da Vinci

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

Leonardo da Vinci

To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

Leonardo da Vinci

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

Leonardo da Vinci

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

Leonardo da Vinci

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.