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.

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.

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.

William James

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

Samuel Johnson

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

Zhuangzi

To examine oneself makes good use of sight.

Voltaire

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

Rick Riordan

Their goal was in sight. They had a Titan with a very loud kitten on their side. That had to count for something.

Steve Vai

If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.

William Hazlitt

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

Zygmunt Bauman

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

Zig Ziglar

The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God’s sight as Rembrandt or anyone else.

Ken Schanzer

Whatever it is we're paying, ... we're delighted to be in this relationship. We want to keep going forever.

Gordon Strachan

He is doing very well. I have been delighted with his performances recently and he is not going anywhere.

Robert Penn Warren

Tell me a story of deep delight.

Wendell Berry

Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.

Mark Ford

I'm delighted we have a general manager that would be in demand. I love that they want to get our general manager, if it's true. But we're going to keep Doug with us.

Fabio Capello

I'm delighted he has taken his total to 100. He has always been a great finisher,

Guru Nanak

The Husband Lord is delightful and forever young, night and day, He embellishes His bride.

William Sharp

Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delight Of the Valleys of Dream.

Daddy Yankee

That song Oye Mi Canto was the key to introduce reggaeton to the masses. It's like what Rapper's Delight (by the Sugarhill Gang) was for the hip-hop movement in the early '80s.