Nature & World Sayings

140 sayings found from the Modern era from 140 authors

The water in the river is not the same water that was there a moment ago.

— Rabindranath Tagore early 20th century
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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

— Chinua Achebe 1958
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Human nature is such that it needs a spiritual dimension.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Unknown
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There are some enterprises in which a complete obnubilation of the brain seems indispensable.

— Herman Melville 1851
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What does it avail that I am in the midst of a garden, if the flowers bloom not for me?

— Mary Shelley 1826
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The triumph of the human mind over the limitations of nature.

— H.G. Wells Uncertain
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The earth does not want new continents, but new men.

— Jules Verne Uncertain, late 19th Century
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My witness is the empty sky.

— Jack Kerouac 1958
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We're all golden sunflowers inside.

— Allen Ginsberg 1955
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The moon is a disc of silver, the stars are tiny diamonds, and the night is a black velvet cloth.

— Langston Hughes 1926
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peak of the mountain and caught the honey of the sun in my hair.

— Zora Neale Hurston 1942
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Every step we take on earth brings us closer to a new world.

— Federico Garcia Lorca Unknown
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You are on earth, there's no cure for that!

— Samuel Beckett 1957
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The older you get, the stronger the wind gets – and it's always in your face.

— Pablo Picasso c. 1960s
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The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good.

— Carl Jung 1959
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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

— John Lennon 1965 (Dylan), often quoted by Lennon in interviews
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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

— Jimi Hendrix Late 1960s
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Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

— Bob Marley 1970s
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I have always been interested in the sky. The way it goes on forever.

— Georgia O'Keeffe 1962
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I am a force of nature.

— Jackson Pollock unknown
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