Quotes About Nature

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road-the one less traveled by-offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.

Praise the sea; on shore remain.

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.

Spring is a virgin, Summer a mother, Autumn a widow, and Winter a stepmother.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Every animal is sad after intercourse.

As a matter of biology, if something bites you it is probably female.