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.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

William Wordsworth

"One impulse from a vernal wood

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.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

Rube Goldberg

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.

Woody Harrelson

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

Robin Ince

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

Zosia Mamet

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

Yuri Gagarin

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

Yunus Emre

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

Twyla Tharp

Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool. We can now see what the landmarks are.

Rick Warren

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

Dan Green

What we do not get are the names of those people peering out from those lush, green trees.

Bill Roberts

He was pretty green until we took him in down here,

Daryn Colledge

I don't know why we wore them. ... It shouldn't matter. We should be able to come out in green or pink and play football.

Wayne Smith

Had results been fair, it is possible that we may have even seen a different government. The Liberals, NDP and Greens represent a majority, and together they would have held a majority of seats.

Jose Andres Puerta

In Spain, we mainly use red plum tomatoes, but it is always fun to experiment. Try using a mix of colors or substitute green tomatoes for plum next time you make a tomato dish.

Ben Steele

I kind of signed my life (over to Green Bay) this summer and had all my stuff here. I really didn't know where to send it. I was just kind of waiting to see what was going to happen and see where I had to ship my stuff.

Tracy Sutton

I have some big shoes to fill. I am looking to hit it head on. Greenland has had a lot of success and I am excited.

Jonathan Swift

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

Heinrich Hoffman

The hare sits snug in leaves and grass, / And laughs to see the green man pass.