Quotes About Nature

Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath--and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

People of faith tend to argue that it is not faith itself but man's baser nature that inspires such violence. But, I take it to be self-evident that ordinary people cannot be moved to burn genial old scholars alive for blaspheming the Koran, or celebrate the violent deaths of their children, unless they believe some improbable things about the nature of the universe.

We are not self-caused little gods.

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us. Cancer is perfectly natural, and yet its eradication is a primary goal of modern medicine. Evolution may have selected for territorial violence, rape, and other patently unethical behaviors as strategies to propagate one's genes—but our collective well-being clearly depends on our opposing such natural tendencies.

Robert Trivers argues, for instance, that people who can believe their own lies turn out to be the best liars of all—and an ability to deceive rivals has obvious advantages in the state of nature.

The question of whether enlightenment is a permanent state need not detain us. The crucial point is that you can glimpse something about the nature of consciousness that will liberate you from suffering in the present.

No human being us responsible for his genes or his upbringing, yet we have every reason to believe that these factors determine his character.

There is no question that many religious disciplines can produce interesting experiences in suitable minds. It should be clear, however, that engaging a faith-based (and probably delusional) practice, whatever its effects, isn't the same as investigating the nature of one's mind absent any doctrinal assumptions.

No human being is responsible for his genes or his upbringing, yet we have every reason to believe that these factors determine his character.

If the laws of nature do not strike most of us as incompatible with free will, that is because we have not imagined how human behavior would appear if all cause-and-effect relationships were understood.

Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.

I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.

Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame

My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, camping.

My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.

I love September, especially when we're in it.

Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.

Those who don't have a wife should sublimate their sexual energies with outdoor sports or long walks.

I love to go out. I love the outdoors. I love outdoor sports. I'm a big traveler.