Quotes About Nature

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of woodsmoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across the pewter afternoons.

the way evolution has always worked, a "secular" process in which life's most sacred secret is embedded.

Curious, I thought, the way nature provided for eyelids, but not lids for the ears.

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

Isn't man but a blossom taken by the wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this Land of the Gods real and everlasting?

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

statistical laws are not necessarily used as a result of our ignorance. statistical laws can reflect how things really are. there are matters that can only be treated statistically.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

When working outside I am governed by Gods time clock not mine and cannot do anything about the weather

Yo tengo la intuición de que los humanos somos sencillamente grandes simios con unos cuantos interruptores genéticos exclusivos -y especiales-.

In history, as in nature, birth and death are equally balanced."1 —JOHAN HUIZINGA

species went extinct.

The lamb and the lion keep a delicate balance, interacting at the margin. If lions were suddenly more swift, they would catch prey that now escape. If lambs suddenly grew wings, lions would starve.

The basic causes of change are precisely those that are not subject to conscious control.

He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them.

What would I do without you? I'd die of stress and depression before nature killed me.

The rain fell in torrents, like God had sucked up the ocean and spit it out over their heads in fury.

We can't play God. We can't do this to kids. You're evil, I'm evil. Everyone will die. No matter what. Let nature win.

He turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling outside, as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them.

The open sky in front of him was a deep purple, slowly fading into the bright blue of day, with tinges of orange from the sun on a distant, flat horizon.

they stared at the vanishing light of day, the sky and water going from orange to pink to purple, then dark blue.

They fell from the sky in jagged streaks, like bars of

network of tree houses and huts and underground burrows that made up the thriving metropolis in which they lived—all logs and twine and dried mud, everything leaning to the left or the right—did