Quotes About Nature

the God of birds and trees would have to be also the God of birth defects and cancer.

Prayer: A petition that the laws of nature be suspended in favor of the petitioner; himself confessedly unworthy. Everybody

We now know things about our nature that the founders of religion could not even begin to guess at, and that would have stilled their overconfident tongues if they had known of them. Yet again, once one has disposed of superfluous assumptions, speculation about who designed us to be designers becomes as fruitless and irrelevant as the question of who designed that designer.

Prayers: A petition that the laws of nature be suspended in favour of the petitioner; himself confessedly unworthy.

To say time is evil because evil happens in time is like saying the ocean is a fish because fish happen in the ocean.

their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

After many a summer dies the swan.

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Mont Blanc confronted us, dazzling, immense, cut sharp out of the bue sky; more prosterous than the most baroque wedding cake, more convincing than the best photograph. It fairly took my breath away. It made me want to laugh.

those roots were made for walking. And that's not all they do.

Man's collective mastery of nature— even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion— can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well- being when it coexists with centralizing forces that have deprived individuals of any mastery over the concrete, immediate conditions of their existence. The collective control allegedly conferred by science is an abstraction that has little resonance in everyday life.

Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars.

But that I am by nature phlegmatic, slow to wrath, and prone to lechery (to love, I would say)

If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me, and be my love.

We really have to get going, Sam said. Can we leave the car here and pick it up later? The monk said, Does a dog have a Buddha nature? Does a fish have a watertight asshole? said Coyote.

Angels are just pretty insects.

Ninety-five percent of all the species that have ever existed are now extinct, so don't look so goddamn smug. —GERARD RYDER

But I have known many women--many women indeed, and it is in their nature to confound us, Othello. They are all by their natures lovely lunatics.

and in the middle of this lake is a big giant owl. Like five stories tall, which is large, in my book, for an owl.

Tuck watched the sun bubble into the ocean. Columns of vertical cumulus clouds turned to cones of pink cotton candy, then as the sun became a red wafer on the horizon, they turned candy-apple red, with purple rays reaching out of them like searchlights. The water was neon over wet asphalt, blood-spattered gunmetal—colors from the cover of a detective novel where heroes drink hard and beauty is always treacherous.

He is angry when he leave today. Like bear," said Mrs. Korjev, who was possessed of an atavistic compulsion toward ursine simile.

Megaptera novaeangliae («Grandes alas de Nueva Inglaterra», la había denominado cierto científico, demostrando de este modo que los científicos también beben)

Strangely enough, Brine took comfort in the fact that this experience was invalidating every assumption he had ever made about the nature of the world. He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.

He noticed some flowers growing where Joshua had just relieved himself. Lush blossoms of a half-dozen vibrant colors stood surrounded by the deadest landscape on the planet. "Hey, were those there yesterday?" "That always happens," I said. "We don't talk about it.