Quotes About Nature

hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious.

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious. —Emily Dickinson

Under a shady tree can you feel the soft cool grass? can you feel it with your toes? we can sit here while it grows. Laurie Berkner

the fruit merely a manifestation of what was inside the tree all along.

rainbows and starfish.

Laurie Faria Stolarz

lots of fish switch genders?" Her parents had no idea. "They switch or they're both. Both at once, or first one then the other. Clown fish all start as boys, but some of them become girls later. Parrot fish are all girls, so then one of them has to become a boy—she changes color and everything—but then if another boy comes along, she might go back to being a girl again.

Grass stain?" "Annoying, probably permanent, essentially harmless. Kind of ugly.

Nature isn't benign," Lederberg said at the meeting's opening. "The bottom lines: the units of natural selection—DNA, sometimes RNA elements—are by no means neatly packaged in discrete organisms. They all share the entire biosphere. The survival of the human species is not a preordained evolutionary program. Abundant sources of genetic variation exist for viruses to learn new tricks, not necessarily confined to what happens routinely, or even frequently.

We'll never escape the limits of the ecosystem. We are caught in the food chain, whether we like it or not, eating and being eaten.

I walked barefoot — the only way to walk on a muddy road.

To my students, I say this: one day each of you will be confronted by a decision that requires you to put the needs of the land above your own need to be right. Until you can accept that humiliation, you cannot be a Truthken.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Sometimes, leaving the road, I would walk into the sea and pull it voluptuously over my head and stand momentarily drowned in the cool blind silence, in a salt-stung neutral nowhere.

Of all the things I wish for her, above all, I want her to know and love the sea.

Mother Earth is always giving, even if it's a lesson. She is always giving." –Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Where are you?' 'I am between the light and the waves.

Windsurfing, the sound of the word contains all the mystery of a solitary buoy in the fog, echoing across the water at the end of the day.

Thomas Szasz, writing in The Manufacture of Madness, points out that this "human tendency to embrace collective error—especially error that threatens harm and commands specific protective action—seems to be an integral part of man's social nature.

I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

He who is about to sing the fourth song is either a man or a stone or a tree.

Ma poésie ne consistera qu'à attaquer, par tous les moyens, l'homme, cette bête fauve, et le Créateur, qui n'aurait pas dû engendrer une pareille vermine.