Quotes About Nature

The news, when it leaked out, caused outrage and horror in Rome. The Republic was never so dangerous as when it believed that its security was at stake. The Romans rarely went to war, not even against the most negligible foe, without somehow first convincing themselves that their preemptive strikes were defensive in nature.

These are the objects of my prayers. A plot of land – not so very large. A garden, a spring beside the house, its water ever-flowing, and a small wood on a slope.

For since we see in Christ some things so human that they appear to share in every aspect in the common frailty of humanity, and some things so divine that they are manifestly the expression of the primal and ineffable nature of the Divine, the narrowness of human understanding is inadequate to cope. Overcome with amazement and admiration, it knows not where to turn.

To live in accordance with nature, therefore, was to live in accordance with God. Male or female, Greek or barbarian, free or slave, all were equally endowed with the ability to distinguish right from wrong. Syneidesis, the Stoics termed this spark of the divine within every mortal: 'conscience'. 'Alone of all creatures alive and treading the earth, it is we who bear a likeness to a god.'48

More people worship the rising than the setting sun

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

Friedrich Nietzsche said, "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

The first turkey that ever came to me on the ground did it a long time ago. I sat there with my hands shaking and my breath short and my heart hammering so hard I could not understand why he could not hear it. The last turkey that came to me last spring had exactly the same effect, and the day that this does not happen to me is the day that I quit.

As the saying on the Northwest Coast still has it, "when the tide goes out, dinner is served.

I guess the decay of a corpse is progress, too . . . from the point of view of the bacteria.

Ieder beest bidt op zijn manier.

Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it's too late.

We're the noblest savages of all.

The link between beast and plate was always made clear, in very unsentimental terms; all the creatures on the farm were for milking or eating, save Humphrey, an overweight and irritable sheep who had escaped the abattoir though pure strength of character. Cruelty to any beast was unthinkable and still remains one of the most important lessons I learned; if we eat meat, we must ensure it was raised in the most humane way possible.

You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.

If man can't piss in his own front yard, then he's living too close to town!

They danced wildly in the forest, swaying with the tall trees and the howling wind.

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

takes a devil to make a decent angel.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.

such a social-media environment; it is merely the most recent and most efficient way that humans have found to scratch a prehistoric itch. The compelling nature of social media, then, can be traced back in part to the evolution of the social brain, as