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Natural Quotes (page 177)

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 . . . George Washington Carver
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be..."
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. Jean-Paul Sartre
...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
...every new genetically engineered plant is a unique event in nature, bringing its own set of genetic contingencies. This means that the reliability or safety of one genetically modified plant doesn't necessarily guarantee the reliability or safety of the next. Michael Pollan
Stephen King quote: "Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny..."
Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature. Stephen King
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase. Bertrand Russell
The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. Ezra Taft Benson
I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are ugly or grotesque, and some wicked or foolish, but very many beautiful beyond any one we have ever seen, and that these are not far away....the simple of all times and the wise men of ancient times have seen them and even spoken to them. William Butler Yeats
I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor... James Otis
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that goes on in America -- a belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding. America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn't have to be confined behind fences, as if a... Bill Bryson
John Jay quote: "Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good..."
Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed. John Jay
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful..."
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. Eleanor Roosevelt
I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere I forget, or die, or move away, And we are done forever; by and by. I shall forget you, as I said, but now, If you entreat me with your loveliest lie. I will protest you with my favorite vow. I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And vows were not so brittle as they are, But so it is, and nature has contrived. To struggle on without a break thus far,--Whether... Edna St. Vincent Millay
John Burroughs quote: "If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I..."
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.... John Burroughs
If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil. Elizabeth Smart

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