Quotes About Nature

let your kids experience as much microbial diversity as you can find. Get them outside, let them interact with animals, allow them to play in the dirt, rivers, streams, ocean. Don't sterilize everything they are going to touch or put into their mouth. A great example of this is the pacifier that falls on the ground. Parents who sterilize the binky run the risk of increasing the likelihood that their child will develop food sensitivities later in life.

You hear yourself walking on the snow. You hear the absence of the birds. A stillness so complete, you hear the whispering inside of you. Alone morning after morning, and even more at night. They say we are born alone, to live and die alone. But they are wrong. We get to be alone by time, by luck, or by misadventure. — Jack Gilbert, from "Betrothed," Collected Poems (Knopf, 2012)

Your baby comes into the world with a biological program expecting to see conditions similar to that past.

In possibly one of the cutest facts you will ever read, sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other.

sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other.

If a baby stork is not happy with the way it is being reared, it sometimes abandons its parents and wanders into another nearby nest to be fed by a new family!

Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than they are shrews.

one of the cutest facts you will ever read, sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other. Elephant shrews are more closely related to elephants than they are shrews.

In possibly one of the cutest facts you will ever read, sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each

Theodore Roosevelt (after whom the Teddy Bear

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find anything else to eat. Amazingly, they can consume up to 95% of their own bodyweight and still survive.

possibly one of the cutest facts you will ever read, sea otters hold each other's paws whilst they are asleep so they don't drift apart from each other.

In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles. To put that into perspective, it is the same as flying half way to Mars when it is at its closest distance to the Earth.

What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk?

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

We like to praise birds for flying. But how much of it is actually flying, and how much of it is just sort of coasting from the previous flap?

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

You mean the nobility of war, sir? The strength of our purpose and all that crap? I'm afraid I don't buy that either. The way I figure it, every day for the past 10,000 years, someone, somewhere in the world has been beating hell out of someone else. I think it's in the nature of the species.

The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.

Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside.

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

I want to turn the whole thing upside down I'll find the things they say just can't be found I'll share the love I find with everyone We'll sing and dance to Mother Nature's song I don't want this feeling to go away.