Quotes About Nature

There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.

It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.

Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.

Pregnancy made her feel too much like an animal. It was embarrassing to be so publicly colonized.

Though some of us saw Lux as a force of nature, impervious to chill, an ice goddess generated by the season itself, the majority knew she was only a girl in danger, or in pursuit, of catching her death of cold.

within the frosted bushes. It was only in

And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops.

We thought green was cheerful, but not too cheerful. Green was also serious.

But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant …) Spring

Corpul ii era ca o tulpina, sustinand laleaua creierului sau.

The Parks Department continued to cut down trees, removing a sick elm to save the remaining twenty, then removing another to save the remaining nineteen, and so on and so on until only the half-tree remained in front of the Lisbons' old house. Nobody could bear to watch when they came for it (Tim Winer compared the tree to the last speaker of Manx)

A természet sem tudott megvigasztalni. A külvilág véget ért. Bárhová is mentem volna, mindenütt csak magammal találkozom.

Olive trees are intimate creatures, eloquent in their twistedness. It's easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them.

Pais supostamente legam características físicas aos filhos, mas acredito que todo tipo de outras coisas também: temas, cenários, até mesmo destinos.

The ground was uneven, treacherous with roots, but the pine needles were soft underfoot. For a moment, despite my foul mood, I felt it: the crisp northern Michigan delight. A slight chill to the air, even in August, something almost Russian. The indigo sky above the black bay. The smell of cedar and pine.

The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of the 'Bombyx mori', no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: 'The legs of the larvae have degenerated, and the adults no longer fly'.

The sun had fallen below the horizon, but still lit the sky in an orange chemical streak more beautiful than nature.

People felt they owned the trees. Their dogs had marked them daily. Their children had used them for home plate. The trees had been there when they'd moved in, and had promised to be there when they moved out. But when the Parks Department came to cut them down, it was clear our trees were not ours but the city's. to do with as it wished.

Small children, by their very nature, are moral monsters.

and the wind-chime laugh that

This is the textbook position on quantum mechanics and the nature of reality: that the Cartesian separation of mind and matter into two intrinsically different substances is false.

For quantum theory elegantly explains how our actions are shaped by our will, and our will by our attention, which is not strictly controlled by any known law of nature.

It is wrong," Bohr once said, "to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.