Quotes About Nature

The long-departed cave lion is more indigenous to the moor than I will ever be.

In the rain-swept afternoon my heart discovers the tragedy of autumn raining from the trees.

However much some people may resent the fact, in nature inequality and not equality seems to be the rule.

As a result, from 1945 on general works which tried to come to grips with the nature of war very often devoted a separate chapter to guerrilla warfare. They almost treated it as if it stood in no relation to anything else.

For most modern Western men, abandoning their families will result in increasing their dispensable income by as much as three quarters.[167] In the whole of nature, there is no arrangement that is more demanding and more altruistic.

and the old farm, now almost overwhelmed

Love is the fall in the genus (Liebe ist der Sturz in die Gattung)

It is one of the central human tragedies that war is not an aberration-it is what human beings do.

The Wind in the Willows Retold from the Kenneth Grahame original by Martin Woodside

What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood.

What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood.' How many times had she said that to people?

a woman who had the face of an angel and the personality of a Doberman pinscher,

She is in every flower you see and every butterfly and in the clouds and in the trees.

But what he really liked about Marie Carter was her quietness. She had a quiet voice and a quiet nature.

A man could love a woman but she would never be his be-all and end-all, though a clever man might let her think she was, of course. But nature would always out. The mother of the main children must be taken care of at all costs and a man had to know that any children he was bringing up were his own. No cuckoos in the fucking nest to grow and betray you at some point. You had to be careful.

In the fall, she knew it was Death who sweetened the apples.

Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent reason that that it is? Like beauty has its own secret reason. It doesn't need human eyes to notice. It just wants to be glorious and unbelievable.

And I mean, if there is a God it's probably a good idea to believe in him. But if there isn't a God, then we're just an accident of nature, a virus, pond scum gone berserk, and it won't matter one way or another if I believe or not because who cares? And so if it doesn't matter, then I choose to believe. There's something mindful about it, about the universe having a heart, us being watched over, maybe life and everything meaning something.

Susie: Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent reason than that it is? Like beauty has its own secret reason. It doesn't need human eyes to notice. It just wants to be glorious and unbelievable.

How had I never noticed before how dear she was? How dear, in fact, was everyone in my village, and every house and tree and garden. How comforting the whisper of the wheel of the mill, the clanging of the smith's hammer, the lowing of the cattle, the laughter of the women.

A list of things you might not hear: eylash opening on the pillow, the appearance of a star, a leaf leaving a tree, a hand in your hair, a lie being withheld, a tear's journey from eye to shoe, air becoming blue, longing.

Like humans, horses have both shallow sleep and a deeper rest period of rest known as rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Horses need about fifteen minutes of REM sleep each day, and they can get that only while lying down.

tout est dans la nature si une personne essaye de vous changer ses quel ne vous aime pas vraiment de la facon que vous êtes rellement

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.