Quotes About Nature

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

As long as love is "blind" - that is, as long as it does not see a whole being - it does not yet truly stand under the basic word of relation. Hatred remains blind by its very nature; one can hate only part of a being.

And how shall we be able to tell whether he is a true zaddik?" The Baal Shem replied. "Ask him to advise you what to do to keep unholy thoughts from disturbing you in your prayers and studies. If he gives you advice, then you will know that he belongs to those who are of no account. For this is the service of men in the world to the very hour of their death; to struggle time after time with the extraneous, and time after time to uplift and fit it into the nature of the Divine Name.

I contemplate a tree. I can accept it as a picture: a rigid pillar in a flood of light, or splashes of green traversed by the gentleness of the blue silver ground. I can feel it as movement: the flowing veins around the sturdy, striving core, the suckling of the roots, the breathing of the leaves, the infinite commerce with earth and air - and the growing itself in its darkness.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Well, love was no fading violet; love was a weed that flourished in the dark. Has anyone ever explained it?

Delaware River.

Nature's own Nobleman, friendly and frank,Is a man with his heart in his hand!

from a small one. That's because, if you are looking at the original, its impact is physiological. In the same way, standing next to a big tree feels quite unlike being next to a sapling.

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate.

Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact.

Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.

We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest.

If you don't know what's meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout.

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

E. O. Wilson, one of the world's most distinguished ecologists, certainly its most eloquent: 'At the heart of the environmentalist world view is the conviction that human physical and spiritual health depends on the planet Earth … Natural ecosystems – forests, coral reefs, marine blue waters – maintain the world as we would wish it to be maintained. Our body and our mind evolved to live in this particular planetary environment and no other.

If you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle.

So the bond with the desert had to be renewed in every generation -fresh air for the breast, pure Arabic for the tongue, freedom for the soul; and many of the sons of Quraysh were kept as long as eight years in the desert, so that it might make a lasting impression upon them, though a lesser number of years was enough for that: