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Category: Nature and Animals

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1. "What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?"

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

2. "Fire and water have no mercy."

proverb

3. "You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink."

English proverb

Quotations about: Various

4. "The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb."

English proverb

Quotations about: Life and Death

5. "At my age, flowers scare me."

George Burns

Quotations about: Youth and Age

6. "Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature."

Suzanne K. Langer

Quotations about: Art and Culture

7. "I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

Willa Cather, "O Pioneers!"

8. "There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens."

Desmond Morris, "The Naked Ape"

Quotations about: Human

9. "Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotations about: Art and Culture

10. "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."

Henry Ward Beecher, "Life Thoughts"

Quotations about: God and Religion

11. "He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect."

Henry Ward Beecher

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

12. "Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects, to show that she is only His image."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: God and Religion

13. "To create a little flower is the labor of ages."

William Blake

Quotations about: Time and Passing -:- Work and Laziness

14. "Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience."

Paul Boese

Quotations about: Human

15. "Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

Henry Brooks Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"

Quotations about: Human

16. "Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it."

Native American proverb

17. "The zoo is a place for animals to study the behaviour of human beings."

Anon.

18. "Nature's laws are the invisible government of the earth."

Alfred Armand Montapert

Quotations about: Authority, Government

19. "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: thats the essence of inhumanity."

George Bernard Shaw, "The Devil's Disciple"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

20. "For, I ask, what is man in Nature? A cypher compared with the Infinite, an All compared with Nothing, a mean between nothing and all."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

Quotations about: Human

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21. "Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together."

English proverb

22. "Every dog is valiant at his own door."

English proverb

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

23. "A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial."

English proverb

Quotations about: Law and Crime

24. "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry."

English proverb

25. "The hottest hearts are obtained by cats of lonely women."

Lidia Jasinska

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

26. "We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."

William Hazlitt

27. "Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

28. "Animals are my friends ... and I don't eat my friends."

George Bernard Shaw

29. "The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. "Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."

Rabindranath Tagore

31. "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

Mahatma Gandhi

32. "Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Science and Technology

33. "An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh."

Will Rogers

34. "Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."

Robert A. Heinlein

Quotations about: Human

35. "The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice."

Anon.

Quotations about: Science and Technology

36. "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Time and Passing

37. "Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."

Elias Canetti, "The Human Province"

Quotations about: Human

38. "If there were fish in a lake, fishing would not make sense."

Lech Walesa

39. "Nature repairs her ravages, - repairs them with her sunshine, and with human labor."

George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

40. "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

41. "All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

42. "The customs of your tribe are not laws of nature."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Law and Crime

43. "Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

Winston Churchill

44. "The better I know men... the more I like dogs!"

Sacha Guitry

Quotations about: Human

45. "Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

St. Augustine of Hippo

46. "I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

47. "A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once."

William Faulkner

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

48. "What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Le Petit Prince"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

49. "To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

Aldous Huxley

50. "All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."

Samuel Butler, "The Way of All Flesh"

Quotations about: Life and Death

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