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.

Corey Dillon

It could get tiresome, ... It kind of wore on me.

Pat Riley

I think you're going to see that kind of series.

Brian Brown

It got kind of wild there at the end.

Robert South

He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.

Washington Irving

By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will.

Walter Savage Landor

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

Walter Savage Landor

There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.

Winston Churchill

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Rebecca Solnit

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

Seth Green

He is probably the highest-paid animal actor there ever was and you know, I knew he was going to be a big star, I just did. It's kind of inevitable,

George Herbert Mead

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

Neil Shubin

Here is a creature with fins that can do push-ups. This is clearly an animal that is able to support itself on the ground.

James Elliott

Have children in the home suggest songs from school. Hold a contest for the happiest song, the best song about animals or another topic. Give ribbons or certificates to the best songs.

Ed Boks

I think it's important that Animal Care and Control play a role in this since we're the ones who are left holding the bag, if you will, for not doing something,

Frank Brown

It could lift its head, but it was paralyzed. It couldn't lift its hind end. Then another gal stopped too, and she ended up calling the vet, Lebanon Animal Hospital, and they were gracious enough to get out of bed for us, and I brought her in.

Ron DeHaven

It is a likely explanation as to how this animal would have become infected.

Charles Platt

It is a different animal than home games.

Rand Pecknold

I thought (Fisher) was one of our keys to the game. RPI had that caged animal thing going after the first period.