Enduring Nature Quotes

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly

Heaven is eternal and Earth everlasting. They can be eternal and everlasting because they do not exist for themselves, And for this reason can exist forever.

Words challenge eternity.

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends

Earth endures; Stars abide.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.

That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product, and of which these are among the transitory expressions.