Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

Diane Ackerman

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Eric Hoffer

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Gustave Flaubert

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Helen Keller

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Horace

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

John Cage

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

Johann Georg Hamann

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Jonathan Swift

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Lennart Meri

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

Peter Senge

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Philip Sidney

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Rupert Brooke

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Robert Kiyosaki

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

Steven Pinker