Nature Quotes
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Birds are such hipsters. They were tweeting long before it was cool. Click on any nature quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."Source: 80 million United States Postage stamps | Author: Maya Angelou
"A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth"Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust?"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"Be a philosopher, but amidst all your philosophy be still a man."Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | Author: David Hume
"Hey, where did we go? Days when the rains came..."Source: "Brown-Eyed Girl" | Speaker: Van Morrison
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."Source: Moby-Dick | Author: Herman Melville
"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied."Source: Utilitarianism | Author: John Stuart Mill
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."Source: The Origin of the Species | Speaker: Charles Darwin
"It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."Source: 1984 | Author: George Orwell
"Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities."Source: Bare Necessities | Speaker: Baloo
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast."Source: The Mourning Bride | Author: William Congreve
"My soul has grown deep like the rivers."Source: The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Author: Langston Hughes
"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you."Source: Game of Thrones | Speaker: Tyrion Lannister
"O my Luve's like a Red, Red Rose That's newly sprung in June"Source: A Red, Red Rose | Author: Robert Burns
"That the sun will not rise tomorrow implies no more contradiction than that it will rise."Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | Author: David Hume
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."Source: The Red Badge of Courage | Author: Stephen Crane
"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it."Source: The Second Treatise on Civil Government | Author: John Locke
"The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day."Source: The Cat in the Hat | Author: Dr. Seuss
"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."Source: The Old Curiosity Shop | Author: Charles Dickens
"There is a place where the sidewalk ends."Source: Where the Sidewalk Ends | Author: Shel Silverstein
"They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God."Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God | Author: Zora Neale Hurston
"This is a man's world. But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl."Source: It's a Man's Man's Man's World | Speaker: James Brown
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."Source: The Lorax | Author: Dr. Seuss
"Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink."Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Why are there beings at all, instead of nothing?"Source: Introduction to Metaphysics | Author: Martin Heidegger