Nature Quotes
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Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.
Roberto Cavalli
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Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.
Claudius Claudianus
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High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.
John Ruskin
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The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake.
Thomas A. Edison
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If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.
Jeff Garcia
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To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.
Vandana Shiva
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If they're (his clients) not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
Sol Hurok
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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
Bill Vaughan
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Nature is our greatest teacher.
Edna Walling
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Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.
Caroline Kennedy
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Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
John Milton
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No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed.
Helen Keller
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The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.
Rene Descartes
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I love my pets, and I'm a big animal lover. I also enjoy the nature and countryside.
Amy Jackson
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How man has come to be the complex being that he is and why, are questions that neither Science nor Religion makes conclusive answer to. This immortal thinker having such vast powers and possibilities, all his because of his intimate connection with every secret part of Nature from which he has been built up, stands at the top of an immense and silent evolution. He asks why Nature exists, what the drama of life has for its aim, how that aim may be attained....
William Quan Judge
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I’m obsessed by nature, I’m obsessed by the British countryside and I’m obsessed by the National Trust. Nature, Architecture and beauty all rolled into one.
George Clarke
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We have to start listening to nature now.
Kevin Spacey
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Let Nature be your teacher
William Wordsworth
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison
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Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
Jane Austen
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In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not in our generation, nor ever again, will we have a land and wildlife opportunity approaching the scope and importance of this one.
Mo Udall