Best nature & faces Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!”

Looks Littles Faces Voice Nature White Wind Arms Bird Rivers Grass Charm Look Up Lap Mist Daisies Greetings

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.”

Two Faces Nature Tree Sea Eternal Infinite Wave Forests Variety Globes Two Trees

Book:Modern Painters

Source: Modern Painters

“The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.”

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.”

Faces Black Nature Dark White Behinds Sun Fire Blood Changed Red Rivers Filled Winter Forests Ships Ruins Substance Yards Eastern Mist Marshes Masts Winter Days

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.”

Hands Running Faces Hate Courses Nature Built Sacred Running Away Sanctity Runaway

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I...understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it!”

“I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.”

Ifs Knows Men Humans Faces Causes Nature Taken Activity Human Activity

Author:Pope Francis

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”

“Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.”

Children Art Faces Mother Artist Nature Attitude Art Is Aspect Features Darling

Author:Beck

“Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.”

Life Children Beautiful Faces Nature Healing Wonder Fire Blue Sells Wave Cups Soar Splendid Cliffs Beautiful Life Loveliness Looking For Love

Book:Love Songs

Source: Love Songs

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”

“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”

Inspirational Humor Faces Science Time Hope Nature Inspiring Path Mankind Praying Despair Historical Hopelessness Deep Thought Extinction Crossroads Urban Design Utter Despair

Author:Woody Allen

“The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.”

People Needs Faces Given Nature Perfect Secret Needed Something New Gorgeous Modeling Not Being Perfect

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which make the face of the world what it is, and as we see it, is interesting and instructive. Until we get hold of a group of physical facts, we do not know what practical bearings they may have, though right-minded men know that they contain many precious jewels, which science, or the expert hand of philosophy will not fail top bring out, polished, and bright, and beautifully adapted to man's purposes.”

“We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect of changing our basic ways of living. This change will either be made on our own initiative in a planned and rational way, or forced on us with chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature.”

Way Made Faces Law Suffering Energy Nature Animal Materials Resources Infinite Chaos Rational Initiative Laws Of Nature Raw Materials Inexorable

Author:Jimmy Carter

“You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.”

Faces Fighting Nature Late Adversity Weed Afternoon Weekend Monday Gorgeous Dandelions Facing Adversity

Author:Hal Borland

“There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.”

Book Faces Three Nature Pleasure Pure Lasting

Book:Sketches of the Principal Picture-galleries in England, with a Criticism on

Source: Sketches of the Principal Picture-galleries in England, with a Criticism on

“Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.”

Faces Turns Nature Sun Flower Your Face

Author:Khalil Gibran

“The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.”

Made Faces Force Nature Tree Movement Habit Destruction Permanent Features Gestures Accustomed Arrested Metamorphosis Nymphs Pompeii

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

“A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.”

Hard Faces Science Turns Fall Nature Wonderful Drug Mountain Discovery Falling In Love Revelations Reaching Climbs Subtle Ecstasy Reaching The Top

Author:Max Perutz

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