Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Richard Louv

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

Richard Louv

Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

Richard Louv

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

Richard Louv

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Richard Francis Burton

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

Richard Le Gallienne

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

Ugo Betti

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.

Daniel Kahneman

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

Susan Mitchell

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

Francis Bacon

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life...

Kobe Bryant

He can play. I think he's been a surprise to people. Now I don't think he's so much a surprise anymore.

Kathy Pulley

He's a whole lot better than we ever imagined. I am surprised that he wasn't just shattered.

Howard Opinsky

I was as surprised as everyone else was to see it.

Jerry Jones

I was very surprised that he was still there.

Jordan Leopold

I was actually kind of surprised but it's OK. We get all of the attention.

W. Somerset Maugham

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

David Hayes

I'm surprised to see him doing so well

Andy Williams

I'm surprised at how we played. I thought we would play much better.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.