Quotes About Nature

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest?

I have read of the great wars of ages past, and men slaughtered by the tens of thousands. And we give but fleeting consideration to their deaths, for it is our nature to banish such thoughts.

Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by their own military.

...the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.

Swifts, flushed from chimneys, catch fire and swoop like blown sparks out over the ramparts and extinguish themselves in the sea.

Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world

As long as the forest stood the Tchetchens were unconquerable... and it is literally the fact that they were beaten in the long run not by the sword but by the axe.

Humans and their wars. You call me monster, , but look what you've gone and done to one another! Good riddance to you now and, if I'm lucky, forever. Have your war. I'll have my radish stew.

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?

Despite the violence and war, this world is the most peaceful place with the most beautiful nature in the universe.

The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.

It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.

The doctrine of "exit strategy" fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

Lets toil under the sun to build poles of love. And let our roots be planted like strong trees that strong winds can't move.

The environmental movement doesn't have many deserters and has a high level of recruitment. Eventually, there will be open war.

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

Birds build nests because they cannot fly forever.

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.