Nature & World Sayings

343 sayings found from 343 authors

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

— Bruce Lee 1971
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

— Anton Chekhov 1890s
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I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

— Harriet Tubman c. 1897
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It is not the light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

— Frederick Douglass 1852
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I tell you, there is no escape for us. We shall be taken up and carried to the end of the earth, and there we shall be given a hearing.

— Susan B. Anthony 1870s
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

— William S. Burroughs 1985
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Nature alone cures. What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

— Florence Nightingale 1859
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

— Albert Schweitzer Unknown
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

— Helen Keller 1940
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The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

— Gloria Steinem 1970s (approx)
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The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

— Greta Thunberg 2018
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I am not a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

— Ursula K. Le Guin 1987
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

— Margaret Atwood 2014
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I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

— Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) 1959
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You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.

— Charlie Chaplin Unknown
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I think the human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

— Robin Williams Circa 1990s
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I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

— Arthur Conan Doyle 1921
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The planet is fine. The people are fucked.

— George Carlin 1992
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The feeling of being able to walk outside and feel the sun on my skin and the fresh air was just incredible.

— Chelsea Manning 2017
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I have been a wanderer on the face of the earth.

— Alexander Hamilton 1797
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