Classic Nature Quotes

#1. Ah! What avails the classic bent
And what the cultured word,
Against the undoctored incident
That actually occurred?
And what is Art whereto we press
Through paint and prose and rhyme-
When Nature in her nakedness
Defeats us every time?

Rudyard Kipling

#2. If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

Mario Puzo

#4. Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.

Oliver E. Williamson

#5. By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.

Steve Erickson

#6. The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

D.R. Silva

#7. In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Aberjhani

#8. With luck, you were read aloud to as a child.

Verlyn Klinkenborg

#9. Alexander von Humboldt's wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person's stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present.

Daniel Walker Howe

#10. In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.

Natalie Angier

#11. The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.

Sheena Iyengar

#12. Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?" ...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine ...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#13. I have inherited fragrance of classic books. Drilling the wall for light, hair tied to a beam in fear of drowsing, I wrest from nature excellence in letters.

Lisa See

#14. He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.

Forrest Tucker

#15. Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

Adolf Hitler

#16. Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#17. If someone else around you has motivation for you to do well, you don't need to develop your own motivation.

Judith Locke

#18. That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work.

Martyn Rooney