Quotes About Nature

Lightning belted through the sky, and someone seemed to be pouring something which closely resembled the Atlantic Ocean over them, through a sieve.

man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man – for precisely the same reasons.

Evrim mi? dediler kendi kendilerine, Ne gereÄŸi var? ve daha büyük anatomik uygunsuzluklar?n? düzeltebilecek noktaya gelene kadar doÄŸan?n onlara vermeyi reddettiÄŸi ÅŸey olmadan da yaÅŸad?lar.

a fresh breeze danced lightly through the trees, and the odd sensation that all the buildings were quietly humming

After a while I had to admit that the forest wasn't that bad. Cold, wet and slippery, and continually trying to wrench my legs off at the knees with some bloody tangled root or other, but it also had a kind of fresh glistening quality that wouldn't go away however much I glowered at it.

Curiosamente, lo único que pasó por la mente del tiesto de petunias mientras caía fue: ¡Oh, no! Otra vez, no. Mucha gente ha imaginado que si supiéramos exactamente lo que pensó el tiesto de petunias, conoceríamos mucho más de la naturaleza del Universo de lo que sabemos ahora.

They did not realize that because of the quasi-reciprocal and circular nature of all Improbability calculations, anything that was Infinitely Improbable was actually very likely to happen almost immediately.

Não é o bastante ver que um jardim é bonito sem ter que acreditar também que há fadas escondidas nele?

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? All

We always had the greatest arguments over sex and fishing.

ama hiçbir ÅŸey ummamak bu gerçekten doÄŸal olamazd?, deÄŸil mi? Bu nefes almamak gibi bir ÅŸeydi.

The summer sun was sinking through the trees in the [ark, looking as if -lets not mince words. Hyde Park is stunning. Everything about it is stunning except for the rubbish on Monday mornings. Even the ducks are stunning. Anyone who can go through Hyde Park on a summer's evening and not feel moved by it is probably going through in an ambulance with the sheet pulled over his face.

Spring is overrated.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

For much of the time we were tramping through wet fields of sago, and a foolish but happy thought suddenly occurred to me. We were walking through the only known anagram of my name -- which is Sago Mud Salad.

doughty scrawl of his signature, a conservationist weapon, set aside for posterity (or for "the people unborn"* as he put it) over 234 million acres, almost the size of the Atlantic coast states from Maine to Florida (or equal to one out of every ten acres in the United States, including Alaska.) 54 All told, Roosevelt's acreage

There are monsters in the world. They're called human beings." —Michael Diamond, from The Life Beyond

the one of insane geometries, of orange lightning, of fire that rained from trees like leaves falling, of the birds rising from the water their impossibly pure white wings spreading across the burning sky. As

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.

And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.

But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can.

And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world.