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1. "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."

William Hazlitt, "Lectures on the English Comic Writers"

Quotations about: Human


2. "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."

A. Whitney Brown

Quotations about: Various


3. "If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Human -:- Life and Death


4. "Cats are meant to be loved, not to be understood."

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5. "A butterfly is a self-propelled flower."

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6. "A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle."

Ian Fleming


7. "God invented dogs to give cats something to laugh at!"

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8. "God made the country, and man made the town."

William Cowper

Quotations about: Various


9. "Who hears the fishes when they cry?"

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears



10. "Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."

Jacob Bronowski

Quotations about: Science and Technology


11. "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

Thomas Browne, "Urn Burial"

Quotations about: Human


12. "Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Italian Journey"


13. "A Camel is a horse designed by a committee."

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Quotations about: Various


14. "In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice."

Clive Staples Lewis, "God In The Dock"

Quotations about: Human -:- Good and Evil


15. "Spring is a true reconstructionist."

Henry Timrod


16. "The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it."

Carlo Goldoni, "Pamela"

Quotations about: Various


17. "Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock."

George Bernard Shaw, "Getting Married"

Quotations about: Human


18. "It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

Sir Edmund Hillary

Quotations about: Power and Weakness


19. "Experiments are mediators between nature and idea."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Sayings in Prose"

Quotations about: Science and Technology


20. "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."

Ogden Nash

Quotations about: Various


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21. "The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."

Aleister Crowley, "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness


22. "Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Various


23. "The darkest hour is just before the dawn."

proverb

Quotations about: Various


24. "The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body."

Jean Baudrillard, "America"

Quotations about: Oration and Silence


25. "Nature is goodness crystallized."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Good and Evil


26. "One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy."

Edward Dahlberg, "Alms for Oblivion"


27. "Life is a zoo in a jungle."

Peter De Vries

Quotations about: Life and Death


28. "Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist."

Henry Louis Mencken


29. "Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology


30. "Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Talent and Genius


31. "The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years."

Oscar Hammerstein, from song "The Sound of Music"

Quotations about: Art and Culture



32. "Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

Quotations about: Love


33. "I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."

John Steinbeck


34. "This mortal air is one wide pestilence, that kills us all at last."

Herman Melville, "Mardi"

Quotations about: Life and Death


35. "Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."

John Dewey, "Art as Experience"


36. "No matter how much you feed the wolf, he keeps looking at the forest."

Estonian proverb


37. "The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it."

Patrick Young

Quotations about: Trust


38. "I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."

Thomas Carlyle

Quotations about: Science and Technology


39. "Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."

John Updike, "Self?Consciousness: Memoirs"


40. "Art compares to nature like wine to the grape."

Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"

Quotations about: Art and Culture


41. "A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true."

Ray Evans, "To Each His Own"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness


42. "Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature."

Gérard De Nerval

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness



43. "Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."

John Ruskin

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness


44. "Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."

Eleanor Roosevelt


45. "If not against us, nature is not for us."

Herman Melville, "Mardi"


46. "Rain is the best policeman."

police motto

Quotations about: Various


47. "The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "Meditations on Quixote"

Quotations about: Good and Evil


48. "There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."

Steven Wright


49. "Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I.
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by."

Christina Georgina Rossetti


50. "If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?"

Aldous Huxley, "After Many a Summer Dies the Swan"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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