Quotes About Nature

Even the most dreaded of poisonous snakes is a kindly disposed fellow at heart.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

In the same way, filling a cavity restores to the tooth its natural function of chewing. Healing does not transcend our nature; it respects it.

If it really were impossible to derive an ought from the is of the human design, then the practice of medicine would make no sense. Natural

Natural function and personal meaning are not alien to each other, they are connected. In

Cuántas veces Maddalena Strozzi cortó una rosa blanca y la sintió gemir entre sus dedos, retorcerse y gemir débilmente como una pequeña mandrágora o uno de esos lagartos que cantan como las liras cuando se les muestra un espejo.

Man is occupied and has been persistently occupied since his separate evolution, with three kinds of struggle: first with the massive, unintelligent forces of nature, heat and cold, winds, rivers, matter and energy; secondly, with the things closer to him, animals and plants, his own body, its health and disease; and lastly, with his desires and fears, his imaginations and stupidities.

The best way to appreciate the nature and objectives of an enemy is to observe him in action.

There are really only two kinds of children in the world: the ones who shy back from a wild frog, scrunch up their face, and stick their tongue out—and those who join in the chase!

We sat down in front of the earth's great philosopher-the Fire.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

God is always the first cause, but there are truly second causes; and they are the means which God uses, in the ordinary course of the world, for the accomplishment of His ends. It is the exclusion of such second causes which makes an event a miracle.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

People who say no to upgrades will end up in caravan parks and wild places.

i'm off to an island nation where formal wear consists of a leaf tired around a penis.

God is both a scientist and an artist.

The historian James Anthony Froude wrote: "The worth of a man must be measured by his life, not by his failure under a singular and peculiar trial. Peter the apostle, though forewarned, three times denied his Master on the first alarm of danger; yet that Master, who knew his nature in its strength and in its weakness, chose him.

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.