Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Bush

Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children.

Laura Bush

We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

Theophrastus

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.

Tertullian

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Tertullian

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.

Lew Wallace

The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.

Joseph Wood Krutch

We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

Joseph Wood Krutch

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

Joseph Wood Krutch

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

Joseph Wood Krutch

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

Joseph Wood Krutch

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Joseph Campbell

An old Apache storyteller reminds us

Joseph Campbell

We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea. To say that divinity informs the world and all things is condemned as pantheism. But pantheism is a misleading word. It suggests that a personal god is supposed to inhabit the world, but that is not the idea at all. The idea is trans-theological. It is of an indefinable, inconceivable mystery, thought of as a power, that is the source and end and supporting ground of all life and being.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

Joseph Priestley

The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.

Karl Kraus

The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.

Karl Lagerfeld

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.

Juvenal

Nature and wisdom always say the same.

Juvenal

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Joyce Kilmer

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

Oscar Isaac

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

Oscar Wilde

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Maria Mitchell

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Paul Tillich

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Paul Klee

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Paul Klee

In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises...

Paul de Man

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Paul Dirac

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.

Paul Davies

The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one of a seething network of information. In this way of looking at nature, the laws of physics are a form of software, or algorithm, while the material world-the hardware-plays the role of a gigantic computer.

Paolo Bacigalupi

We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.