Quotes About Nature

Paulo plugged in the machine, which looked like the mutant offspring of a vacuum cleaner and a toaster oven, and showed them how to place wood chips in the bottom. Then he lit the wood chips with a long match and aimed the metal contraption at the opening of the hive. Puffs of smoke wafted around the hive and then blew straight in. Almost immediately the bees, which had been flying haphazardly around the room, raced back to the hive, and the buzzing inside grew louder and louder.

We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

We see, too, how Christopher is at a stage in his disease where he can't remember the word for moon, but it doesn't matter, he knows it's something beautiful in the sky, isn't that enough?

If we want to give our children what they need to thrive, we must honor their basic nature- boyish or girlish, introverted or extroverted, wild or mellow.

Nim loved the ocean because it was always there, wherever she looked and as far as she could see, but it was too huge and powerful to understand and too dangerous to

It's been so long since I heard that someone died of natural causes.

Encouraged to act immodestly, a woman exposes her vulnerability and she then becomes, in fact, the weaker sex. A woman can argue that she is exactly the same as a man, she may deny having any special vulnerability, and act accordingly, but I cannot help noticing that she usually ends up exhibiting her feminine nature anyway, only this time in victimhood, not in strength.

Cambrian animals were not particularly large at first, but they were plentiful and innovative. Jaws appeared. Eyes appeared. Nature began experimenting with weaponry.

The storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength. —Ho Chi Minh

Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.

Nature does not know extinction, only transformation

Squiggly light bulbs and Priuses, whatever value they have, come out of the industrial mind. Ecological agriculture has the disciplines of ecology and evolutionary biology to call on, based on millions of years of emerging efficiencies such as those seen in nature's prairie ecosystems. The industrial sector has no such organizing discipline to call on.

A bird that doesn't know freedom doesn't know what wings are for.

Dietro la natura morta c'è un artista vivente.

Don't worry so much about others, panda bear eats bamboo like a heart of palm.

Fish don't fly, birds don't swim, find out what you're capable of, before you want to be.

Fishing makes time stressful.

Grasshoppers don't plant." They migrate after consuming everything that belongs to the other.

Grasshoppers don't plant."

The scarecrow never goes out of style."

The scarecrow never loses its elegance."

The tsunami was announced and those who didn't believe it went to the beach to see it.

There is more wisdom inside a seed than in my head.

Artificial light attracts insects, spiritual light drives insects away."