Quotes About Nature

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

Life will find a way.

Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature