Quotes About Nature

But music-good music-was by nature an intimate act.

Tal vez la lección más dura que Han había aprendido era que nadie es totalmente bueno o malo. Todo el mundo es una mezcla de ambas cosas.

But even a thornbush grows a flower sometimes. And sometimes the loveliest flower has poison at its heart.

Adalah sudah menjadi sifat manusia untuk menguatkan diri menghadapi hal yang paling buruk.

Aku akan menanamkan bibitbya dan Jepang akan memupuknya.

Waktu itu aku tidak mengerti maknanya. Buju itu menceritakan bagaimana daun-daun kayu yang sudah cokelat dan kering harus jatuh untuk memberikan tempat kepada pucuk yang hijau dan baru. Tiga dasawarsa kemudian barulah aku mengerti.

In one way or another everything communicates. Human are the only creatures on earth, with the exception of cats, that are certain of the absolute critical nature of the message they try to convey. I have found that the only difference between the two is that cats are correct, while humans...eh...not so much. Ninety-nine point nine percent of the time we are just making stuff up. And some of us have elevated it to a seriously messed up art form.

I don't get it. It's a bunch of trees with leaves.

Sur cette côte normande, à une heure aussi matinale, je n'avais besoin de personne. La présence des mouettes me dérangeai: je les fis fuir à coups de pierres. Et leurs cris d'une stridence surnaturelle, je compris que c'était justement cela qu'il me fallait, que le sinistre seul pouvait m'apaiser, et que c'est pour le rencontrer que je m'étais levé avant le jour.

A broadcast about wolves, with recordings of their howls. What a language! The most heartrending I know, and I shall never forget it. From now on, in moments of excessive solitude, I need merely recall those sounds to have the sense of belonging to a community.

Walking in a forest between two hedges of ferns transfigured by autumn--that is a triumph. What are ovations and applause beside it?

He remembered as never before how exquisite and beautiful she was, and her kisses tasting of crème de menthe and her fragrance of Coty perfume would be new and sweeter than ever after the coca and the rustic perfumes of these valleys. What a feeling of satin, that of her red lips under his cracked by the wind and the sun! The astonishment in her blue eyes when he related his odyssey through these wild mountains!

If you think you're important, if you feel that your life matters, all you need to do is spend some time in nature, Hannah thought. Stand before an ocean. Climb a mountain. Stare out over a canyon. Creation--wild and untamed--reminded her of her size in this universe. But feeling small did not send her into despair. She was like a child, trusting her Father when he said the storm would pass.

I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores.

It was a December of crows.

Plants whose names my mother somehow found the time to teach me.

My grandad used to tell me that if you want to get up-close and personal with birds, you must sit and remain still for at least twenty minutes.

Birdwatching is also the perfect entry point to rekindle our innate bond with the natural world

How will we be inspired to love and protect the natural wold we depend on if we have no direct experience in it?

Birdwatching will never yield instant gratification. It depends on acceptance and patience...

Put simply, birds talk. They discuss everything and every one. They talk to each other. They talk to potential and existing partners. They discuss territories, predators and other animals using a combination of calls, songs and body language.

Why even ask the question? Growth is "natural," a child "develops," its potentialities "unfold." The words themselves, in their root meanings, proclaim inevitability.

Who can say how heredity and environment and disability come together?

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.