Quotes About Nature

Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate.

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

Glory is like a circle in the water

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.

The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Forest is a dream where you may find yourself and dream is a forest where you may lose yourself!

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

Everything tries to be round.

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with.

What needs to change is the nature of advertising itself. That business hasn't really evolved since the days of Don Draper.

Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.

There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care.

I get really excited thinking about being in the world without a lot of people.