#nature

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #nature




The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.


Mikhail Bakunin


#because #been #collective #consists #divine

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.


Michael Pollan


#ecology #farming #symbiosis #nature

She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.


Guy de Maupassant


#pretty-girls #sketch #nature

True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#justice #law #reason #nature

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all; that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because "we owe it to ourselves.


Henry Hazlitt


#economics #free #krugman #schemes #nature

What is art? Nature concentrated.


Honore de Balzac


#concentrated #nature

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.


Edward Abbey


#above #amazing #clouds #crooked #dangerous

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#athletics #been #cheat #cheating #human

I don't think I have a signature.


J. J. Abrams


#signature #think

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.


Ansel Adams


#always #edifice #glitter #golden #green