Quotes About Nature

And then she fell, from standing, foot-fins together, straight into the wavelets, where she was now seal, and she flung herself down toward the deeper water.

Seals do not sit about and tell, the way people do, and their lives are not eventful in the way people's are, lines of story combed again and again, in the hope that they will yield more sense with every stroke.

He arrives carrying a forest, and you said he walks his cat on a leash, and he's the one assessing other people's mental health?

The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder.

Magic is a convenient word for a whole collection of techniques, all of which involve the mind. In this case, we might conceive of these techniques as including the mobilization of confidence, will, and emotion brought about by the recognition of necessity; the use of imaginative faculties, particularly the ability to visualize, in order to begin to understand how other beings function in nature so we can use this knowledge to achieve necessary ends.

My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

white bat of a snow spirit beating its wings?

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

A round house keeps snakes away because it makes no shadows where snakes can hide," Tjikuu says. "Herero who build square houses like white people are foolish. Round houses bring good luck. They're like nature.

Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.

I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't.

Listen,' someone whispers into my ear. 'Listen to me.' Am I dead? 'Listen,' the voice whispers. 'In some countries, you kill a monster when it's born. Other places, you kill it only when it kills someone else. Other places, you let it go, out into the forest or the sea, and it lives there forever, calling for others of its kind. Listen to me, it cries. Maybe it's just alone.

Any season / is a season for blood, if you look at it in the right light.

I feel my strange, beautiful bird in my heart, and the unflooded world all around me.

Trees fall on houses and he has to be there, nature committing crimes against property.

Ladybugs all dressed in red Strolling through the flowerbed. If I were tiny just like you I'd creep among the flowers too!

Annika no quería llegar tan lejos. Opinaba que el hombre era el único ser dotado de fantasía y sentimientos, y que por eso mismo tenía una grave responsabilidad sobre la naturaleza y sobre todo lo que vivía.

Too often the concept of nature has been used to explain social inequalities or exploitative relations as inborn, and hence, beyond the scope of social change

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.