Quotes About Nature

O homem é a única espécie biológica que destruiu a sua própria função sexual natural e está doente em conseqüência disso.

Tu es grand quand tu trouves ton plaisir dans le ciel bleu, dans le chevreuil, dans la rosée, dans la musique, dans la danse, quand tu admires tes enfants qui grandissent, la beauté du corps de ta femme ou de ton mari; quand tu te rends au planétarium pour étudier les astres, quand tu lis à la bibliothèque ce que d'autres hommes et femmes ont écrit sur la vie.

The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world -- to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which have acted upon him. However deeply we should like to penetrate, however close we seem to be drawing to truth, one unknown quantity eludes us: man's primordial energy, his original self, that personality which was given him with the gift of life itself. On it rests man's true freedom; it alone determines his real character.

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.

Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

Humans are a part of creation and shamanism is our way of connecting with the whole.

being water i am the voltage of rocks

The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them.

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people.

There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp.

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

Changing one's mind about human nature is hard work, and changing one's mind for the worse about oneself is even harder. Nisbett