Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. "

Related Quotes:

" The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand. "

" I think I've got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can't see why other people can't be like that. "

" All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. "

" The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature. "

Maria Montessori

" A tree is an incomprehensible mystery. "

" You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor. "

Alexander the Great

" It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. "

" Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! "

Wallace Stevens

" To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. "

" As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. "

" And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. "

" Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest. "

" It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. "

" The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life. "

" It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. "

" Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. "

Bryant H. McGill

" Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world. "

" In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border. "

" The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. "

" Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature. "

" The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away. "

" Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. "

Theodore Roethke

" The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. "

" The mountains are calling and I must go. "

" There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her. "

" The groves were God's first temples. "

William C. Bryant

" We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. "

William Hazlitt

" It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. "

" A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. "