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.

Samuel Butler

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Greg Toczydlowski

Industry experts predict that hybrids could make up nearly 15 percent of total registered vehicles within the next decade.

Margaret Chan

All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role.

Lennart Nilsson

Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

Mahalia Jackson

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

Robert A. Heinlein

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

Karen Hill

They give out loads and loads of information, and give you an opportunity to hear many experts who teach these seminars, and many provide worksheets to put your ideas down on paper,

Michael Kennedy

It is under investigation by our experts, subcontractors and our own personnel.

Rosette Lerias

For as long as the rescuers who are on the ground, who are the experts in what they are doing, say that 'we will continue', then we will support them.

Truman Capote

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

Woody Allen

Life's hard, then you die.

Wallace Stevens

Life is not free from its forms.

Salman Rushdie

Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

Vincent Cassel

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.

Sarah Dessen

Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day—that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.

Sarah Dessen

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.

Saint Augustine

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.