Famous Quotes & Sayings

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Janine Benyus

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.

Anton Chekhov

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

Baltasar Gracian

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

Diane Ackerman

Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Blaise Pascal

The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

Blaise Pascal

When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.

Blaise Pascal

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Edmund Burke

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Brian Greene

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

Diane Ackerman

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

Edward Abbey

There are no vacant lots in nature.

Edward Abbey

The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

Edward Abbey

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

Edward Abbey

I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine.

Edward Abbey

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Aristotle

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

Aristotle

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Aristotle

Man is by nature a political animal.

Jamais Cascio

Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.

Brit Morin

Because of the nature of my brand, it's so important our readers know it really is me behind my keyboard.

We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.

Anna Jameson

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

Stephen Jay Gould

The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).

Stephen Jay Gould

Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

Stephen Jay Gould

Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?

Stephen Jay Gould

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

Larry Johnson

We just started our investigation, ... The SBI is here now, and it is suspicious in nature.

When allegations of such a serious nature have been made, they need to be probed. If nothing comes out, then that will be the end of it. We are only trying to find out the truth.

We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.

Douglas Adams

And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.