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
"Be curious."Source: Birthday Party Speech | Speaker: Stephen Hawking
"California girls, we're unforgettable."Source: "California Gurls" | Speaker: Katy Perry
"Could be raining."Source: Young Frankenstein | Speaker: Igor
"Does your dog bite?"Source: The Pink Panther Strikes Again | Speaker: Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau
"Don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer…"Source: "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" | Speaker: Vicki Lawrence
"He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich."Source: "Down Under" | Speaker: Men at Work
"Heh heh."Source: Beavis and Butt-Head | Speaker: Beavis and Butt-Head
"Here comes the sun. And I say, it's all right."Source: "Here Comes the Sun" | Author: George Harrison
"Hey, where did we go? Days when the rains came..."Source: "Brown-Eyed Girl" | Speaker: Van Morrison
"Hi-yo, Silver!"Source: The Lone Ranger | Speaker: The Lone Ranger
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful."Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci | Author: Leonardo da Vinci
"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
"I set fire to the rain."Source: "Set Fire to the Rain" | Speaker: Adele
"I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her."Source: Notting Hill | Speaker: Anna Scott
"I've seen fire and I've seen rain."Source: "Fire and Rain" | Speaker: James Taylor
"In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight."Source: The Lion Sleeps Tonight | Speaker: The Tokens
"Islands in the stream, that is what we are."Source: Islands in the Stream | Speaker: Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
"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
"It was a dark and stormy night."Source: Paul Clifford | Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"It wasn't a rock. It was a rock lobster."Source: "Rock Lobster" | Speaker: The B-52's
"Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities."Source: Bare Necessities | Speaker: Baloo
"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about…"Source: Mysticism and Logic | Author: Bertrand Russell
"Me, Tarzan. You, Jane."Source: Tarzan the Ape Man | Speaker: Tarzan
"Mr. Christian!"Source: Mutiny on the Bounty | Speaker: Captain Bligh
"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
"No arts; no letters; no society."Source: Leviathan | Author: Thomas Hobbes
"Not that there's anything wrong with that."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: Jerry Seinfeld
"O my Luve's like a Red, Red Rose That's newly sprung in June"Source: A Red, Red Rose | Author: Robert Burns
"Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."Source: Now, Voyager | Speaker: Charlotte Vale
"Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young."Source: Mildred Pierce | Speaker: Ida Corwin
"Rollin' on the river"Source: "Proud Mary" | Speaker: John Fogerty
"That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be undid, Homeskillet."Source: Juno | Speaker: Rollo
"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 dingo took my baby!"Source: A Cry in the Dark | Speaker: Lindy
"The loons! The loons! They're welcoming us back."Source: On Golden Pond | Speaker: Ethel Thayer
"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
"Under the boardwalk, down by the sea..."Source: "Under the Boardwalk" | Speaker: The Drifters
"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
"When the dawn comes, tonight will be a memory, too."Source: Cats (1981 Musical) | Speaker: Grizabella
"Why are there beings at all, instead of nothing?"Source: Introduction to Metaphysics | Author: Martin Heidegger
"You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down."Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: George Bailey
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."Source: Jaws | Speaker: Brody