Nature & World Sayings
140 sayings found from the Modern era from 140 authors
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
The environment not only goads or releases, it selects.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
The human being is an animal that can say 'no'.
The essence of human nature is to be social.
The educator must be a kind of gardener, cultivating the seeds of critical consciousness.
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
I can choose to be an animal, a plant, a stone, a star; it is all the same to me.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
The rain came down, sluicing the blood from the cobblestones, and the day was clean and washed.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.
The Brain – is wider than the Sky – For – put them side by side – The one the other will contain With ease – and You – beside –
Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Leave me to the sea, to the waves, to the wind, to the sun, to the moon, to the stars, to the infinite.