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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"

Other categories: Human

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

A. Whitney Brown

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Various

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

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

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Science and Technology

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

Thomas Browne, "Urn Burial"

Other categories: 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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Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Human

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

Sir Edmund Hillary

Other categories: Power and Weakness

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Sayings in Prose"

Other categories: Science and Technology

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

Ogden Nash

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness

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

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

Other categories: Various

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

proverb

Other categories: Various

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

Jean Baudrillard, "America"

Other categories: Oration and Silence

25. "Nature is goodness crystallized."

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

Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Trust

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

Thomas Carlyle

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness

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

Gérard De Nerval

Other categories: Beauty and Ugliness

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

John Ruskin

Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

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