Quotes About Nature

I tore all the roses off a single sad bush and threw them, one after the other, into the angry sea.

In a world without melancholy, nightingales would start burping

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy on her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her.

Il vento le scompigliava i capelli, il sole li glorificava.

Lucy's Sabbath was generally of this amphibious nature. She kept it without hypocrisy in the morning, and broke it without reluctance in the afternoon.

to descend from bright heaven to earth, whereon there are shadows because there are hills…

Who could help anything? Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.

the state of nature is rather a state of injustice, of violence, of uncontrolled natural impulses, and of inhuman deeds and emotions.

Because history is a rational process, universal history is the manifestation of a "Spirit whose nature is always one and the same, but which unfolds this its one nature in the phenomena of the World's existence.

Besides nature is a theater of secondary importance compared with world history.

The truth is that we need invertebrates but they don't need us. If human beings were to disappear tomorrow, the world would go on with little change…. But if invertebrates were to disappear, I doubt that the human species could last more than a few months.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

The evolutionary epic is probably the best myth we will ever have.

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

When they go fishing, it is not really fish they are after. It is a philosophic meditation.

Not a yard but was part of a shell-hole--not an inch, to be more precise-- And most of the holes held water, and all the water was ice: They stared at the bleak blue heavens like the glazed blue eyes of the slain, Till the snow came, shutting them gently, and sheeting the slaughtered plain.

I'd rather be ignored as a frog than eaten as a human.

trembling copse of young saplings

her mother naked

Now, the soul of Capitola naturally abhorred sentiment. If ever she gave way to serious emotion, she was sure to avenge herself by being more capricious than before.