Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldo Leopold

Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

Aldo Leopold

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Aldo Leopold

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them.

Aldo Leopold

Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of [Passenger] pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring?

Aldo Leopold

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

Aldo Leopold

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Aldo Leopold

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Aldous Huxley

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

Aldous Huxley

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

Aldous Huxley

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Aldous Huxley

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

Albert Einstein

He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

Albert Einstein

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

Alexander Hamilton

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Adolf Hitler

Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers the master's right on her favourite child, the strongest in courage and industry ... The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel.

Adam Sedgwick

Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.

Adam Sedgwick

Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.

Farrah Fawcett

To be rude to someone is not my nature.

Geoffrey West

Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling.

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

Abdolkarim Soroush

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Algernon Sidney

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

Beeban Kidron

I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.

Alexander Smith

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

We'd like to know where it was seen, who they saw in it, anything of that nature.

Aberjhani

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Robert Byrne

Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'

Oona Chaplin

I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters.

Vonda Shepard

My nature is to worry about everything too much.

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

Alison Lurie

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

Andrea Dworkin

I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split.