Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

Oscar Wilde

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

Pope John Paul II

The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.

Piet Mondrian

Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things...

Pope Francis

There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.

Pope Francis

The Church, in her wisdom, maintains the distinction between engaged and married couples -- they are not the same, today's culture and society have become rather indifferent to the delicate and serious nature of this passage.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Chuck Palahniuk

A good story should change the way you see the world.

Christy Turlington

If you truly want to make an impact on the world, you can and you will.

Christopher Paolini

The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

Anne Bronte

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

Anne Bronte

I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.

Angelina Jolie

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Angelina Jolie

I've started to really become aware of the world we live in, what's really going on.

Amos Oz

There is a document in every novel in the world. Even in the most fantastic novel, even in science fiction, there is a documentary side. But, this side is not the crux of the matter.