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.

Gary Arnold

Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.

Patti Smith

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Howard Lee

We must find creative ways to re-energize students and get them to be prolific readers.

Tyler Cowen

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

Will Ferrell

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted.

Richard Florida

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

Robert De Niro

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

Richard Roeper

That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.

Jerry Colangelo

He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored.

Thomas Morgenstern

It is a dream. Two gold medals within two days.

Christian Backman

I don't even know what I was thinking. I just threw all my stuff up and skated around on the ice. When I got the gold medal around my neck, it was hard to hold back your tears.

George Babicz

He says his gold medal glows, and his silver medal sparkles.

Andrew Marvell

He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

Richard Barnfield

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

William Jennings Bryan

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Will Ferrell

I put my pants on just like the rest of you - one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.

Tracy K. Smith

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?