Quotes About Nature

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Perhaps one day it will be taken for granted that we should help every living creature, the trees, the bushes and flowers, yes even the earth, the soil. The Garden of Eden.

Both sharks and vaginas have a substance called Squalene. Squalene exists in shark livers and is also a natural vaginal lubricant-AMAZING LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE VAGINA, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK

When you have children or grandchildren it seems kind of waste if they cannot play on the lawn because there is fertilizer all over it.-Author, ORGANIC LANDSCAPING TECHNIQUES BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOKS

No engineer would have dreamed of such an inelegant solution, which goes to illustrate the opportunistic nature of evolution. (As Francis Crick once said, 'God is a hacker, not an engineer.')

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

Mää olen ahven. Mää olen hiilest tehty ahven… Mää ihmettelen kauhiast.

Rings out to meet me on my way.

And many a brimming water-urn. Tall trees their hallowed branches spread, Laden with pleasant fruit, o'erhead;

7. It is the nature of the mind to accept certain things and to reject others; this is bondage, nothing else.

girls their mothers' nature share. So be not thou. For pity's sake Accept the word the monarch spake. Thy husband's will, O Queen, obey, And be the people's hope and stay, O, do not, urged by folly, draw The king to tread on duty's law.

Who flesh and roots and berries eat; A hundred fishers man each boat Of the five hundred here afloat

With berries, fruit, and water-brooks. There build thee with thy brother's aid A cottage in the quiet shade, And faithful to thy sire's behest, Obedient to the sentence, rest. For well, O sinless chieftain, well I know thy tale, how all befell: Stern penance and the love I bore Thy royal sire supply

Sleep softly… eagle forgotten… under the stone.

Planting the trees that would march and trainOn, in his name to the great Pacific,Like Birnam Wood to Dunsinane,Johnny Appleseed swept on.

Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black,Cutting through the forest with a golden track.

The Dandelion" O dandelion, rich and haughty, King of village flowers! Each day is coronation time, You have no humble hours. I like to see you bring a troop To beat the blue-grass spears, To scorn the lawn-mower that would be Like fate's triumphant shears. Your yellow heads are cut away, It seems your reign is o'er. By noon you raise a sea of stars More golden than before.

[A]utumn... is mature, reasonable and serious, it glows moderately and not frivolously....

Andrei walked a lot: this was the best and most pleasant state for him--to be walking, to move no matter where. Thoughts are simpler when you walk, and you can amuse them with what you see along the way

Whether a person is in bed or walking along and is struck by sudden death, it's right for humans to die on solid ground, with the earth beneath their feet and air trying to get into the lungs.

It is said that, "Nature has a horror of emptiness" (horror vacui). The spiritual counter-truth here is that, "the Spirit has a horror of fullness". It is necessary to create a natural emptiness—and this is what renunciation achieves—in order for the spiritual to manifest itself.

One should not poke one's nose into places where Nature does not want the presence of man.

As a child, one has that magical capacity to move among the many eras of the earth; to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud and listen unselfconciously to the soughing of the trees.

I shall never forget how the red ball of the sun hung on the horizon and raced along with the train for a short space," she later wrote, "and then plunged below the belly-band of the earth. There have been other suns that set in significance for me, but that sun! It was a book-mark in the pages of a life." While