Quotes About Nature

Mommy, you are like a lady cardinal because you are brown. Why do you have better camouflage than daddy? Right now, I have medium camouflage. Will I be brown or white when I grow up? Why do some white people not like brown people? Don't worry, Mommy, you can hide in the forest from those bad people. You have good camouflage. Can I have good camouflage even though I'm half and half?

Experience God in the Mountains, then in the Butterflies, Trees and the Sea. Then slowly you will Realize, that God is in You & Me!

We are searching for Life on the stars, but we haven't studied the flowers. While Life is right here, in you and me, we are looking for it on Mars!

it's the nature of the mind to be restless.

The forest is peaceful, why aren't you? You hold onto things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird's song then let go. If you know nature, you'll know Dhamma. If you know Dhamma, you'll know nature.

It's just what it is, it's natural, it's nature. It's just the way it is. And you're a witness to it, because you recognize you're in this position of the Buddho, or the knower, the witness.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

Nature takes good care of her appearance. What makes nature ugly is the behavior of human beings.

With the exception of rainy days, my entire summer was spent in this kind of mountain samurai's existence.

The idea of karma and transmigration are the foundation of Buddhist cosmology, whose purpose is to illuminate their nature and relationship to human existence. Unlike the modern scientific view of the cosmos, Buddhist cosmology is meaningless without the human element.

Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips with Me

A zebra does not change its spots.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

That first undifferentiated potential perception, that first principle of experience, is said to correspond to pure, absolute enjoyment, the innermost nature of existence.

There is no god without animality, no animal without humanity, no man without a portion of divinity

Yahweh would have preferred that man had not emerged from "nature." This is the meaning of the story told in the first chapters of Genesis.

Afirmar que um sistema político pode suscitar entusiasmo apresentando-se abertamente como portador de uma "doutrina de ódio" implica olhar os partidários como loucos, doentes criminosos ou perversos. Será necessário, então, explicar como é que um povo inteiro ficou louco. Se o é por natureza, que ideia fazemos da natureza humana? Se o é por acidente, como é que nisso se tornou - ou cessou de o ser?

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

If a rattlesnake thinks he can swallow a mouse, he probably can. Don't assume you think like a snake unless you are one.

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

No land is more beautiful, and therefore more powerful. That is what I believe in, Aouli. I believe in Hawai'i. I believe in the land." -Haleola

They were simple, kindly peasants, almost as close to nature as the animals with which they journeyed... She wondered if, in the years to come, any remnant of the faith she preached would stay with them, and be of help to them in their troubles.