Quotes About Nature

Nature is change, the continual elaboration of the new, a totality being created in an essentially open process of development without any preestablished model. "Life progresses and endures in time."16 The only part of this progression that intelligence can grasp is what it succeeds in fixing in the form of manipulable and calculable elements and in referring to a time seen as sheer juxtaposition of instants.

on the conviction that nature responds to experimental interrogation.

Needham comments that, according to a philosophic conception dominant in China, the cosmos is in spontaneous harmony and the regularity of phenomena is not due to any external authority. On the contrary, this harmony in nature, society, and the heavens originates from the equilibrium among these processes. Stable and interdependent, they resonate with each other in a kind of nonconcerted harmony.

We are running out of time, the earth is ravaged, our bodies are indefinite; Lorraine reminds us to make use of each moment.

just hope it's still living then. The trees don't know your race or your gender identity or your sexuality. The trees don't expel you

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

Out of wood so crooked and perverse as that which man is made of, nothing absolutely straight can ever be wrought.

Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made.

The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...

nh?ng b?n n?ng c?a chúng ta ho?t Ä'á»™ng ch?ng l?i nh?ng b?n n?ng c?a chúng ta, có th? nói nh?ng ph?n b?n n?ng c?a chúng ta ho?t Ä'á»™ng thay cho nh?ng b?n n?ng c?a chúng ta...

You reason like a well-fed man, while your comrade's philosophy comes from an empty stomach. With reason you won't vanquish one another. You would agree at once if either you were hungry or he were full. The animal is always first in you and only when it is appeased, Man becomes conscious and in his great pride, despises his real nature.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.

Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

11 The uguisu or warbler, sometimes called the nightingale of Japan.

The apotheosis of Sincerity to which Tsu-Tsu gives expression in the Doctrine of the Mean attributes to it transcendental powers, almost identifying them with the Divine. "Sincerity is the end and the beginning of all things; without Sincerity there would be nothing." He then dwells with eloquence on its far-reaching and long enduring nature, its power to produce changes without movement and by its mere presence to accomplish its purpose without effort.

A mother who tries to console her broken heart by fancying her departed child absent on his wonted chase after the dragon-fly, hums, How far to-day in chase, I wonder, Has gone my hunter of the dragon-fly!

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.

Now I know, a refuge never grows from a chin in the hand and a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

E' tutto collegato. Quello che accade ora agli animali, succederà in seguito all'uomo