Quotes About Nature

The winter loves me," he retorted, and then, disliking the whimsical sound of that, added, "I mean as much as you can say a season can love. What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

I didn't know why he had chosen me, why it was only to me that he could show the most humbling sides of his handicap. I didn't care. For the war was no longer eroding the peaceful summertime stillness I had prized so much at Devon, and although the playing fields were crusted under a foot of congealed snow and the river was now a hard gray-white lane of ice between gaunt trees, peace had come back to Devon for me.

Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence. Changed

uello che voglio dire è che io amo l'inverno, e quando ami qualcosa, ti ama indietro in qualsiasi modo debba amare.

Under the influence not I know of the hardest cider but of his own inner joy at life for a moment as it should be, as it was meant to be in his nature, Phineas recaptured that magic gift for existing primarily in space, one foot conceding briefly to gravity its rights before spinning him off again into the air. it was his wildest demonstration of himself, of himself in the kind of world he loved; it was his choreography of peace.

There were several trees bleakly reaching into the fog. Any one of them might have been the one I was looking for.

Yet here was a scattered grove of trees, none of them of any particular grandeur.

Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others. I didn't think he knew how to act or even how to feel as the object of help.

Love is a flower you got to let it grow.

The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you

rain, I don't mind

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain.

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

I draw comfort from the notion that nature reveals its motivations only slowly; mysteries within mysteries that keep us arrogant, would-be know-alls firmly in our place.

I marvel at animal behaviour but it never surprises me. Nature has had a long time to hone its secret skills.

That aspect of reality of most central concern and importance to human beings is, of course, human beings. And in order to survive and succeed in his fullest capacity as a human being, man must be able to identify his own nature (including his means of knowledge) as well as the nature of the world (or universe) in which he acts.

British moths include the Uncertain, the Confused, the Magpie, the Lackey, the Drinker, the Streak, the Ruddy Highflyer, the Buff Arches, the Figure of Eighty, the Anomalous, the Dark Dagger, the Lettuce Shark, the Isabelline Tiger, the Waved Tabby and the Mother Shipton.

There are over 1,200 species of bat in the world and not one of them is blind. There are 4,800 species of frog in the world but only one of them goes 'ribbit'. Eight times as many people belong to the National Trust as to the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties combined. Every human being starts out life as an arsehole: it's the first part of the body to form in the womb.

Plants grow more quickly if you talk to them in a Geordie accent.

Every man is as Nature made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

The Sun is white (with a hint of turquoise), not yellow.

If cats don't encounter people by the time they're 10 weeks old, they will always be scared of them.

The largest egg in comparison with the size of the bird is that of the little spotted kiwi. Its egg accounts for 26 percent of its own weight: the equivalent of a woman giving birth to a six-year-old child.