Quotes About The Vastness Of Nature

#1. There is something in a tropical forest akin to the ocean in its effect on the mind. Man feels so completely his insignificance there and the vastness of nature.

Henry Walter Bates

#2. The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

Max Planck

#3. Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.

Piet Mondrian

#4. Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort
the unsuccessful effort
to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#5. I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

Wale

#6. There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed!

Augustine Of Hippo

#7. The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

Criss Jami

#8. I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand."
Mary Lasswell

Mary Lasswell

#9. For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#10. There is something to be said about the vastness of the earth, as well as the vastness of the heavens, in reminding us how small we are and how great God's creation is.

Aleksandra Layland

#11. Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.

William Godwin

#12. Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

Camille Paglia

#13. I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

John Shelby Spong

#14. Stop and unplug," say I; "look around you, at the vastness and greatness of the natural world." Some stop. Others need binoculars to tie their shoelaces.

Fennel Hudson

#15. Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#16. We class schools, you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School, Good School, and School. Frankly," said Mr Levy, "School is pretty bad ...

Evelyn Waugh

#17. No worry before its time.

Ellen Langer

#18. To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea

Munia Khan

#19. Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.

Leah Hager Cohen