Quotes About Nature

I hate to wake up one morning and find out she was killed in a rockslide!

We are creature of darkness and light, capable of barbarism and limitless cruelty, and also love, and laughter and the creation of the most sublime beauty. We are both these things, clearly, but which are we more of?

Our minds are wired by nature to detect patterns.

He ran west, away from the rising sun. The wet sand glistened in the morning light and felt spongy beneath his shoes. The tide was out, and the beach sat wide, filled with a fresh assortment of seashells and sand crabs scurrying sideways and jellyfish stranded out of water. Seagulls picked over dead fish, and a pelican stood witness. The wind was down, the sea smooth, and the waves low swells instead of whitecaps. The air was fresh, and the beach was his.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

The sky was just beginning to light up a little, the quiet time when all the air is clean and you can hear birds, even in the middle of New York City, the time of day you never see except by accident, and you always tell yourself, "I must get up and appreciate this time of day once in awhile," and then you never do. Don't ask me why.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

A good river is nature's life work in song.

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

The lessons are clear. Live close to nature. Love deeply. Eat simple food raised sustainably (ideally by your own hands). Move naturally. Laugh and rest. Actually live. (And live longer, as it turns out.)

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is the natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is a part of evolution.

Nature remains focused on survival.

Living "biblically," I would suggest, means recognizing our place in God's story and living in such a way that we reflect his nature and purpose in the world.

Il cibo nella sua forma migliore porta con sé memorie e riflessioni che vanno oltre il nutrimento e connette le persone che lo raccolgono alla terra da cui lo prendono, rendendo sacro il semplice atto di mangiare.

È il tempo delle api l'antidoto perfetto alla nostra moderna vita multitasking.

E' il tempo delle api l'antidoto perfetto alla nostra moderna vita multitasking.

Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.

Orcas continually prove there are more things in the ocean than are dreamt of in our science.

If you swim in the ocean every day for 100 years, you are more likely to be struck by lightning than swallowed by a shark.

If you are what you eat, you're part plastic - because every animal on earth is eating it.