Quotes About Nature

he made out a broad sandbank strewn with the skeletons of whales—a suggestion that he had come across a migration route

The gray water churned angrily where competing tides vied with one another

water and strong currents, appearing to be a strait and the mouth of a big gulf that might be discharging into it.

What a strange land this was, where the giants were peaceful and the birds terrifying.

there may be a matter of five leagues," he observed. This is what he saw: a series of mounds, covered with tufts of grass

rising approximately 130 feet from the water. A later explorer described the cape as "three great mountains of sand that look like islands

to land, they would have spotted penguins, sea lions, and even huge elephant seals lolling on the rocky shores.

they had gone ashore, they would have encountered an animal paradise of foxes, hares, puma, peregrine falcons, owls

owls, flamingos, hairy armadillos, and parrots

mainly wood for fire and fresh water.

diminutive island lacking in either fresh water or wood but seething with wildlife.

The water is of a fine blue colour

than at Port Saint Julian, and Serrano decided to linger for six days to fish and hunt for sea elephants.

have no laws or faith, and live according to nature. They do not recognize the immortality of the soul

the seas began to churn, tossing the ship as if she were nothing more than an oversized piece of flotsam.

The sea wolves of these two islands are of various colors and of the size and thickness of a calf

By "sea wolves" Pigafetta meant the sub-Antarctic sea lion or the sea elephant

snow-covered mountains and the Santa Cruz River, three miles wide.

possibly even food, to drift onto the pebbly beach

there, on its banks, build a raft to cross it. The river lay many miles to the north, and the task

the exhausted crew finally reached the broad expanse of the river.

The weather had relented, and fish, as they knew from their first visit to the river, were plentiful.

could provide abundant food, and their thick, glossy, silvery-gray pelts a sorely needed source of warmth in these frigid latitudes.

Identity is destiny.