Quotes about nature
nature tongue advantage
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. Alexander Pope
nature pain fate
The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life. Albert Schweitzer
nature animal life-is
My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see.
nature commitment race
The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity. E. O. Wilson
nature ninety-nine species
Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.
nature animal genius
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
nature ecosystems giving
If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment.
nature meals burning
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
nature mean humanity
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
nature animal ecosystems
Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay.
nature clouds rolling
A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder. Dylan Thomas
nature eye blood
When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.
nature land pieces
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause. Douglas Adams
nature tree tongue
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues. Dr. Seuss
nature eye men
And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention. Donald Miller
nature believe science
We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible. Claude Bernard
nature responsibility animal
Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late. Dalai Lama
nature children age-difference
In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones. Delia Ephron
nature names skulls
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it. Debbie Harry
nature climbing silence
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being. Ansel Adams
nature fighting government
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
nature woods today
Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.
nature sunshine light
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. Anne Bronte
nature stars ocean
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of mountain, ocean, river and plain, the clouds and stars; actual contact with the elements, sympathy with the seasons as they rise and roll. Amos Bronson Alcott
nature matter
Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
nature fall decay
Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out. Anne Sexton
nature jewels important
Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.
nature blessed night
It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course. Anne Rice
nature facts fabrication
What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image. Daniel J. Boorstin
nature sex believe
If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing. D. H. Lawrence
nature flower roots
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
nature kissing nymphs
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
nature tree sunlight
I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.