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Quotes About World

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.
~ Krzysztof Kieslowski
There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.
~ Max Planck
Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.
~ Paul Gauguin
Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.
~ Richard Louv
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
~ Thomas Huxley
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
~ James Dean
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
~ Plato
Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.
~ Wes Jackson
Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.
~ Jessica Chastain
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
~ Quintilian
Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.
~ Scott Cunningham
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.
~ Michael Pollan
Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."
~ Anne Waldman
You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.
~ Ram Dass
Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.
~ Pierre Schaeffer
If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.
~ Robert Heilbroner
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.
~ Albert Einstein
It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.
~ Svetlana Alliluyeva
I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
~ Svetlana Alliluyeva