Famous Quotes

"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail."

Vladimir Nabokov on Nature

More quotes about Nature

• "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

• "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

  Anais Nin on Nature

• "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

  Albert Einstein on Nature

• "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

  e. e. cummings on Nature

• "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

  Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

• "A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

• "To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."

• "Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

• "Genius is an African who dreams up snow."

• "A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."