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.

Walker Percy

Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

William Butler Yeats

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude...

Robert Green Ingersoll

We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Wendell Berry

We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

Wendell Berry

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Yoko Ono

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

Deborah Williams

I really didn't think we were going to get out of there alive. It really was a miracle from God.

Richard Risbrudt

I prayed for a miracle tonight and I got it.

Tracy Chapman

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

Kitty Kelley

I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Thomas Jefferson

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Mike Yaconelli

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

Matthew Henry

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.

Lauryn Hill

I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.