Nature Provides Quotes

#1. From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going

Tony Juniper

#2. Renewables are, in fact, much more reliable than power based on extraction, since those energy models require continuous new inputs to avoid a crash, whereas once the initial investment has been made in renewable energy infrastructure, nature provides the raw materials for free.

Naomi Klein

#3. A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace to troubled hearts.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development

Wangari Maathai

#5. Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.

Khushwant Singh

#6. Virtually all of the extremely important services that nature provides are completely ignored by conventional economics. The ozone layer, for example, shields all life from DNA-damaging ultraviolet radiation.

David Suzuki

#7. Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

William Ruckelshaus

#8. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises. ... "Built-in" does not mean unmalleable; it means "organized in advance of experience."3

Jonathan Haidt

#9. Wild horses and Feral horses live on their own. Nature provides everything that they need.

Kay De Silva

#10. It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

William Vickrey

#11. Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they are related to the whole structure of the plant through self-similar spirals proportioned by the golden mean.

Jay Kappraff

#12. Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well without ever giving a thought to the sulfur cycle or wetland functions. Only when the benefits nature provides are disrupted do we take notice.

Paul Hawken

#13. Practice beauty appreciation in as many places as possible. Nature provides a virtual smorgasbord of miracles. See the beauty in all of it.

Wayne Dyer

#14. For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Leon Krier

#15. The initial organization of the brain does not depend that much on experience. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises.

Jonathan Haidt

#16. Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

David Suzuki

#17. Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#18. Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#19. Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

Calvin Coolidge

#20. Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Margaret Fuller

#21. Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.

Pitigrilli

#22. Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

Youssef Ziedan

#23. Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Langston Hughes

#24. Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#25. Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into the nature of existence and helps a person prepare for complete enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#26. To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#27. Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Arthur Keith

#28. By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

Jane Jacobs

#29. The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

Leslie Stephen

#30. The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.

Le Corbusier

#31. People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

Thomas Kincade

#32. We are beloved spirit sons and daughters of heavenly parents, with a divine nature and destiny. Our Savior, Jesus Christ, loved us enough to give His life for us. His Atonement provides the way for us to progress on the path to our heavenly home, through sacred priesthood ordinances and covenants.

Carole M. Stephens

#33. Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities that in principle cannot be 'observed' are manipulated to produce a new phenomena
[sic] and to investigate other aspects of nature.

Ian Hacking

#34. Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

Francois Rabelais

#35. Just as Morse code provides a good introduction to the nature of codes, the telegraph provides a good introduction to the hardware of the computer.

Charles Petzold

#36. The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

David Attenborough

#37. Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

Seneca The Younger

#38. An artist can try and pretend he is not following rules, but let's remember that nature itself provides rules. Gravity for instance.

Kate Carlisle

#39. The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

Lewis Wolpert

#40. I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.

Ziggy Marley

#41. The human condition is essentially the conflict between the human need for control and a universe that provides little if any of it. Once we accept this and get into the flow of life, we are free and, paradoxically, able to get better results.

Oli Anderson

#42. Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

Alfred North Whitehead

#43. War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.

C.E.M. Joad