Quotes About Nature

men being led into the clearing. The towering oaks formed a mighty tunnel for the procession. The trees, like the air embracing them, were still and somber, reflecting b

Stalagmite: a calcium carbonate deposit shaped like an icicle and formed by the dripping of percolating calcareous water … Stalagmite: dripping of percolating calcareous …

I cling to the beauty and strength of nature and all wild creatures with a passion born of certainty that only through them can i retain my perspective about life and my own part in it.

THERE IS ONE MORE POINT to be made about animal minds and evolution. Evolution is not a progressive force. Although it was once thought that there was a scale of nature or a Great Chain of Being, with all the forms of life ascending in some orderly, preordained fashion—from jellyfish to fish to birds to dogs and cats to us—this is not the case. We are not the culmination of all these "lesser" beings; they are not lesser and we are not the pinnacle of evolution.

You are going to the fields strewn with corpses, How can I not feel a pang inside? Though I would swear to follow you, I am afraid that green will turn yellow

If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait.

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients seem to have had reason to decide that bringing their creations to full completion likewise required a correspondence bewteen the measure of individual elements and the appearance of the work as a whole.

In primo luogo la riproduzione fotografica delle vedute paesaggistiche, la fisionomia di un paesaggio, deve servire come aiuto importantissimo alla conoscenza della terra.

When it is acute, we call it disease; when it is chronic, we call it nature. It is a disease

According to the Sânkhya philosophy, nature is composed of three forces called, in Sanskrit, Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas. These

Tamas is typified as darkness or inactivity; Rajas is activity, expressed as attraction or repulsion; and Sattva is the equilibrium of the two. In

Uniformity is the rigorous law of nature; therefore, what happened once can happen always.

The seed is put in the ground, and earth and air and water are placed around it. Does the seed become the earth; or the air, or the water? No. It becomes a plant, it develops after the law of its own growth, assimilates the air, the earth, and the water, converts them into plant substance, and grows into a plant.

People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.

Sabism is a modern synthesis, resynthesis, poetry of perspective, nugget of facts, conglomeration, cultart, the coarsening of the "new reality", proart, new nature, perturbation, grandart, euphony, exaltation, multiculture, word act, triad, genesis.

Dersú –le dije–, te echaba de menos. En cuanto no estás, siento que falta algo.

I Feel Sorry for the Garden No one is thinking about the flowers No one is thinking about the fish No one wants to believe that the garden is dying that the garden's heart has swollen under the sun that the garden is slowly forgetting its green moments …

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.