Quotes About Nature

A dork is a whale's penis.

He told me that when a male honeybee mates, its testicles explode and the penis is left inside the queen bee.

An ostrich egg is bigger than its brain.

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we have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

For more than four hundred years we nurtured the belief (should that, perhaps, be faith?) that evidence-based investigation meeting scientific standards of rigor would reveal the true mechanism of nature. and yet when the mechanisms of nature were revealed to be quantum mechanisms, the worlds of science and philosophy were set on a collision course. instead of truth and comprehension, we got deeply unsettling questions about what we can ever hope to know about the world.

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.

All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.

A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they went. One of them made a chittering sound that wasn't very melodic. The other twitched its tail and splashed a little water our way, all in good fun. They weren't the attractive Flipper kind of dolphins. They were regular dolphins that aren't as pretty and don't get cast on television. Maybe they just refused to sell out and see a plastic surgeon. I held up a fist to them. Represent.

Animals do not do what they have done. Animals kill to eat, to defend themselves or their own, and to protect their territory. Not for the joy of it. Not for the lust of it...Only humans do that, wizard.

Magic came from life itself, from the interaction of nature and the elements, from the energy of all living beings, and especially of people. A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

I've heard that nature abhors a vacuum—though if that's true, then I can't figure why about ninety-nine zillion percent of creation is vacuum.

Look," I said. "Me and the island are . . . kind of partners." "Oh, right," Thomas said. He looked at Karrin and said, "Harry's a geosexual.

Those who write them do," Ferus said. "They leave bits and pieces behind them when they lay down the words, some scraps and smears of their essential nature." He sniffed. "Most untidy, really—but assemble enough scraps and one might have something approaching a whole.

Wow. That's sort of pretty. In a Jaws kind of way.

And here I thought global warming was due to cow farts. - Harry Dresden

The energy of night was far different than that of the daylight—not inherently evil, but wilder, more dangerous, more unpredictable.

Magic comes from life, from the energy of our world and from people, from their emotions and their will. That's what I had always been taught.

It is the nature of life. Something unexpected happens. Something goes wrong, and the plan must change.

Summer and Winter, constantly chasing each other, wounding what the other heals and healing what the other wounds.

I pressed past the outer branches of the lilacs and found a small and relatively open space in the middle. Then I waited.

See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

Magic came from life itself, from the interaction of nature and the elements, from the energy of all living beings, and especially of people.