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Category: Nature and Animals

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

John Ruskin

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Herman Melville, "Mardi"

4. "Rain is the best policeman."

police motto

Quotations about: Various

5. "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

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

Steven Wright

7. "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

8. "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

9. "A forest bird never wants a cage."

Henrik Ibsen, "The Master Builder"

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

10. "The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

11. "Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."

Luigi Pirandello, "Six Characters in Search of an Author"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

12. "Nature does nothing uselessly."

Aristotle, "Politics"

13. "I love my cats because I love my home, and little by little they become its visible soul."

Jean Cocteau

14. "Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong."

George Carlin

Quotations about: Various

15. "Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture."

Jacquelyn Mitchard, "The Deep End of the Ocean"

16. "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."

Jeff Valdez

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

17. "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

Frank Lloyd Wright

Quotations about: God and Religion

18. "In summer, the song sings itself."

William Carlos Williams

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

19. "He that plants trees loves others beside himself."

Thomas Fuller, "Gnomologia"

Quotations about: Egoism

20. "Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow."

Egyptian proverb, (from ancient temple)

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Reality and Imagination

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21. "All art is an imitation of nature."

Seneca the Younger

Quotations about: Art and Culture

22. "It is the great north wind that made the Vikings."

Scandanavian proverb

Quotations about: History and Nations

23. "Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Time and Passing

24. "The imagination is one of the forces of nature."

Wallace Stevens

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

25. "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed."

Sydney Smith

Quotations about: Success and Fame

26. "Time spent with cats is never wasted."

François-René de Chateaubriand

Quotations about: Time and Passing

27. "If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."

Karel Čapek

Quotations about: Human -:- Oration and Silence

28. "In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are only consequences."

Robert G. Ingersoll

29. "A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

Leo Buscaglia

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

30. "Nature is none other than God in things."

Giordano Bruno

Quotations about: God and Religion

31. "Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life."

Truman Capote

Quotations about: Love

32. "Oh, the powers of Nature! She knows what we need, and the doctors know nothing."

Benvenuto Cellini

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

33. "The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

Henry David Thoreau

34. "Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires."

Alexander Graham Bell

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Human

35. "The great book of nature is written in mathematical symbols."

Galileo Galilei

Quotations about: Science and Technology

36. "A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense."

Anon.

Quotations about: Science and Technology

37. "There is a technical meteorological term for a sunny, warm day which follows two rainy days. It's called a "Monday.""

Anon.

Quotations about: Various

38. "Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."

Herbert Hoover

Quotations about: Human

39. "My favorite animal is steak."

Fran Lebowitz

Quotations about: Various

40. "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."

Edmund Burke

Quotations about: Law and Crime

41. "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."

Arthur Stanley Eddington

42. "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

43. "The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."

Alphonse de Lamartine

Quotations about: Human

44. "God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."

Paul Dirac

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Science and Technology

45. "Ice is water that has decided to come together, to unite, and make something out of itself! Isn't that inspiring?"

Stephen Covington

Quotations about: Various

46. "Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature."

Julia Ward Howe

Quotations about: Marriage

47. "The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature."

proverb

48. "All things living are in search of a better world."

Karl Popper, "In Search of a Better World"

Quotations about: Various

49. "Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."

Garrison Keillor

50. "Technology is that which separates us from our environment."

Marshall McLuhan

Quotations about: Science and Technology

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