Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Bagwell

I can't just go away. That's not in my nature.

Jerome K. Jerome

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

James Cagney

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks and yellows, all tinged by the familiar transparent blue of the sea.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

We must go and see for ourselves.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

Gary Snyder

After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

Gary Snyder

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

Gary Snyder

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Gaston Bachelard

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

Herbert Read

Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.

Evan Esar

The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.

Eugene Delacroix

The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.

Eugene Delacroix

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

Ernest Hemingway

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Ezra Pound

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

Eugene Wigner

The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which permits the complicated nature of the world to be blamed on something which is called accidental and thus permits him to abstract a domain in which simple laws can be found.

Francis Bacon

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

Francis Bacon

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Francis Bacon

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

Francis Bacon

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Francis Bacon

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

Francis Bacon

Art is man added to Nature.

Francis Bacon

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Francis Bacon

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

George Washington Cable

Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.

George Washington Carver

More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us.

George Washington Carver

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

George Washington Carver

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.

George Washington Carver

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.