Quotes About Nature

What we forget about animals we begin to forget about ourselves.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

The Gypsy girl carved love letters into trees, filling the forest with notes for him.

Lo que olvidamos de los animales es lo que empezamos a olvidar de nosotros mismos.

We hebben oorlog gevoerd, of eigenlijk hebben we een oorlog laten voeren, tegen alle dieren die we eten. Deze oorlog is nieuw en heeft een naam: bio-industrie. De bio-industrie beschouwt de natuur als een obstakel dat overwonnen moet worden.

She was the tree and also the river flowing away from the tree[.]

Am stat cuibariti cateva momente, apoi ne-am intins amandoi pe spate si iarba era ca un pat. Pentru ca era asa de intuneric, puteam vedea multe dintre stele. Era ca si cand ne-am fi aflat sub o umbrela mare sau sub o rochie. Am vorbit multe minute despre multe lucruri, dar de fapt eu nu-l ascultam si nici el nu ma asculta, si eu nu ma ascultam pe mine, iar el nu se asculta pe sine. Ne aflam pe iarba, sub stele si asta este ceea ce faceam.

I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees.

She was the tree and also the river flowing away from the tree, 'There are worse things,' she said, 'worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive,' I could see that she wanted those last words back, but the current was too strong.

the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what's "natural.

The Thanksgiving turkey is the flesh of competing instincts —of remembering and forgetting.

I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Instiinct' blijft ook daarna de gebruikelijke verklaring wanneer het gedrag van dieren te veel op intelligentie lijkt te wijzen.

Cutting down that tree was my last war! I asked him who won, which I thought was a nice question, because it would let him say that he won, and feel proud. He said, The ax won! It's always that way!

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." The protective emphasis is not a law of nature; it comes from the stories we tell about nature.

I hid myself between two leaves of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature.

Based on Gulliver's descriptions of their behaviour, the King describes Europeans as the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

He said, "my discourse was all very strange, but especially the last part; for he could not understand, why nature should teach us to conceal what nature had given; that neither himself nor family were ashamed of any parts of their bodies; but, however, I might do as I pleased." 

But a Broom-stick, perhaps you will say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head; and pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature? His Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational; his Head where his Heels should be, groveling on the Earth.

I had been for some hours extremely pressed by the necessities of nature; which was no wonder, it being almost two days since I had last disburdened myself. I was under great difficulties between urgency and shame. The best expedient I could think of, was to creep into my house, which I accordingly did; and shutting the gate after me, I went as far as the length of my chain would suffer, and discharged my body of that uneasy load.

A sort of animals, to whose share, [...] some small pittance of reason had fallen, whereof we made no other use, than to aggravate our natural corruptions, and to acquire new ones, which nature had not given us; that we disarmed ourselves of the few abilities she had bestowed; hand been very successful in multiplying our wants, and seemed to spent our whole lives in vain endeavors to supply them by our own inventions.

La Naturaleza se satisface con muy poco y que la necesidad es madre de la invención.

So, naturalists observe, a flea hath smaller fleas that on him prey; and these have smaller still to bite 'em; and so proceed ad infinitum.

pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.