Quotes About Nature

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.

a human mechanical form

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Vatnajökull,

It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.

Water which is too pure has no fish.

This land makes me believe anything is possible. Here lies a gift unraveled as was meant to be: within its many folds are men, beasts, insects and grass. The green goes on and on in relentless beauty. As I look at the land I am heartbroken thinking of the future when I will not be here and when this place, too, will be something else.

I yearn for flowers that bend with the wind and rain.

We have raped the natural world, damming rivers and carelessly using up resources, polluting the atmosphere, and battling the nurturer, Mother Earth. Now nature fights back with a fury of natural disasters: hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, droughts, floods, and global warming. In response we fight climate change, seeking to stop it without addressing the underlying attitude that created the problem to begin with.

A mere two days without eating and you passed out. It must be tough not being able to photosynthesize.

Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been shed like tears And lonely birds have sung their grief. ... After the war-fires of three months, One message from home is worth a ton of gold. ... I stroke my white hair. It has grown too thin To hold the hairpins any more.

Shine: clear dew aching with light.

Wind, light and time ever revolve; Let us then enjoy life as best we can." from "The Winding River

There's a tree," Starflight said, jumping to his feet. "In the forest." "No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?

I AM THE GOD OF STORMS! I BRING THE THUNDER! I BRING THE LIGHTNING! STOOOP RAINING ON ME!

You'd better be all right or I will tie you to a tree and cover you with hallucinogenic frogs. Tamarin, please wake up.

But he found himself picturing Qibli standing here, under this tree with Moon,

Winter was not surprised to discover that the rainforest was horrifying and awful.

flying and swimming and living like a real SeaWing.

Nowadays we only lose a few dragons a year to the carnivorous plants." "The what now?" Swordtail said, his voice rising an octave. "CARNIVOROUS WHATS?

It's different," he objected. "Swimming is not the same as trying to fly while getting blown about and whacked in the face with little balls of water and also lightning — have we talked about the lightning?" "He's coming, too," Kinkajou said to Moon. Turtle sighed in defeat.

Turtle made a "would rather not handle this weather either myself" face and tried to shake some of the rain off his waterlogged wings.

It was a little unsettling how quiet the skies were. Clay