Quotes About Nature

Nos adiestran durante demasiado tiempo en la estupidez y al final se nos convierte en una segunda naturaleza, decía Marcelo, me dice Renzi. Lo primero que pensamos siempre está mal, decía, es un reflejo condicionado. Hay que pensar en contra de sí mismo y vivir en tercera persona.

La naturaleza tomó la precaución de que las ideas sean invisibles. Es el último refugio de la rebelión.

Evil is inevitable,' Reuben quoted, 'in the course of a creation which develops with time.

Arbor bona frcts bons facit; mala autem arbor frcts mals facit. (Matthew 7.17:

Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.

A wild animal that feels that it no longer has any reason to live reaches in the end a point when its remaining energies may actually be directed toward dying.

Rabbits need dignity and, above all, the will to accept their fate.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.

Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.

We do not take moonlight for granted. It is like snow, or like dew on a July morning. It does not reveal but changes what it covers.

The primroses were over.

People who record birdsong generally do it very early--before six o'clock--if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon, usually broken by trees and hedges.

Wisdom is found on the desolate hillside... where none comes to feed, and the stony bank where the rabbit scratches a hole in vain.

Some say that the Black Rabbit hates us and wants our destruction. But the truth is—or so they taught me—that he, too, serves Lord Frith and does no more than his appointed task

Sheep used to have wings. One flew into the sky and all the others followed. They took their wings off while feeding in the warm sun but the wind blew away their wings so they couldn't fly anymore. They had to return to earth by drifting to where the sky curves down and touches the land, and then walk round the long way.. i like that..

Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah, he said. There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here what is is what must be.

Narrow lanes climb both slopes and come together in a great ring of elm trees which encircles the flat summit. Any wind--even the slightest--draws from the height of the elms a rushing sound, multifoliate and powerful.

He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Hazel followed; and together they slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where the first primroses were beginning to bloom.

One cloud feels lonely.

Once the moon gets to be full somebody - some man or other - goes up every day and slices bits of one side until there isn't any more,and then after a bit a new one grows. Men do that with all sorts of things, actually - rose bushes for instance.... The man who slices the bits off brings them down here and then they're used for making those lights on the cars. Clever isn't it... They only last about one night, I should think, because you hardly ever see them shining by day.

Gli animali non si comportano come gli uomini. Se devono battersi, si battono. Se devono uccidere, uccidono. Ma non usano la loro intelligenza per trovar la maniera di arrecar danni alle altre creature, di avvelenar loro la vita. Essi hanno dignità, hanno animalità.