Quotes About Nature

The Earth is deep

Which of them, then, was more detestable? The one who was loathsome by nature, or the one who wanted to be loathsome but hadn't enough ambition to excel at it>

Zwyczajne dziecko zgin??oby dzisiaj. Tego wymaga?y prawa natury. Ale kto? albo co? chroni?o ch?opca i prawo natury zosta?o z?amane.

There is nothing that doesn't decay. Some things decay more slowly than others, that's all.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy…is simply this, science fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

You can't alter your DNA and meet that expectation, so get over it. You are what you are.

As far as the rest of the biosphere is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But

I don't know what's going on in the world, he said. Everything seemed so reasonable and scientific until I discovered my son was a fraud with the ability to hide my own memories from me. And now you come along. The captain at the gate told me you were executed and buried yesterday. He spoke to you? He didn't say a word to me, I said. Don't change the subject, young man. I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature. Nature's virtue is intact. I just know some different laws.

Matar es lo primero que aprendimos. E hicimos bien, o estaríamos muertos, y los tigres poseerían la Tierra.

The clay can become a bear," she said, "but not as long as it rests cold and wet in the riverbank.

Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't a will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never decide to cease to exist. So if we can we'll kill every last one of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us.

Mas nesse momento, sua cabeça inclinada para trás, as folhas verdes e macias se movendo gentilmente na brisa quase imperceptível, sentiu um poderoso déjà-vu. Ele havia olhado para essas folhas antes. Recentemente. Mas isso era impossível. Não havia árvores grandes em Trondheim, e nenhuma crescia dentro do complexo de Milagre. Por que a luz do sol varando as folhas parecia-lhe tão familiar?

Thou art fertile ground, and I will plant a garden in thee.

Any animal is willing to kill in order to save itself.' 'Any animal is willing to kill the Other,' said Ender. 'But the higher beings include more and more living things within their self-story, until at last there is no Other. Until the needs of others are more important than any private desires. The highest beings of all are the ones who are willing to pay any personal cost for the good of those who need them.

we are strange indeed among all the plants and animals, who unlike us know their place, and if they think of God at all do not imagine him to be their kin, or themselves to be his heirs.

Kovan?n yüzeyindeki buzu k?rsalar bile hemen tekrar donaca??n?, ama içeri s?cak bir yere koyduklar?nda, istedikleri gibi buzun çözüleceÄŸini onlara söylemedi.

That is the Earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of the hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upward from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets and winds and birds.

Our lives are just our genes and our upbringing. We simply act out the script that was forced upon us.

She was copious, her sap-filled veins, her skeleton of wood, her tingling leaves that bathed in light, her roots that tapped into seas of water salted with the stuff of life.

You couldn't look at children and hope to see much of their parents beyond their physical appearance, and not always that. They came as Wordsworth said, trailing clouds of glory. Along with a few clouds of other things not quite so glorious.

It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born homo sapiens.

La naturaleza no puede hacer evolucionar a las especies que no tienen un deseo de supervivencia.

The plant had likely been there for over a century, Wila knew, sprouting new petals every season and surrounding the temple with its pleasant perfume. So beautiful, she thought, and yet so resilient. Am I not stronger than a flower? She

Perhaps those who grew up among these people might somehow sublimate their ambition, or perhaps there was something in the racial genotype that suppressed it or replaced it