| 250 Nature Quotes
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“Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.”
Ian McHarg Quotes |
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“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
James Anthony Froude Quotes |
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“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
Samuel Butler Quotes |
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“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.”
Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes |
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“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.”
Havelock Ellis Quotes |
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“We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.”
Stephen Jay Gould Quotes |
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“Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.”
John Dewey Quotes |
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“Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.”
Henrik Tikkanen Quotes |
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“We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.”
Margaret Mead Quotes |
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“Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.”
Alan Wilson Watts Quotes |
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“What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.”
Voltaire Quotes |
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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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“Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.”
Aeschylus Quotes |
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“There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.”
Sir Thomas Browne Quotes |
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“Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.”
Thomas Hobbes Quotes |
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“He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.”
Norman Mailer Quotes |
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“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
Mother Teresa Quotes |
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“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
John Updike Quotes |
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“As for evolution, I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoan bumped into each other under a volcanic cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford.”
Robert G.Lee Quotes |
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“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.”
Dogen Quotes |
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“anonymous fruit.”
Clare Booth Luce Quotes |
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“Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.”
Luther Burbank Quotes |
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“Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.”
Henry Fuseli Quotes |
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“Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.”
Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes |
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“Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.”
Irving Burns Quotes |
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