Quotes About Nature

Tenemos que librarnos de la idea de que somos una especie agresiva por naturaleza que no sabe evitar la guerra.

It is not Docetism (in the strict sense) which is the characteristic of gnostic Christology, but the two-nature doctrine, i.e. the distinction between Jesus and Christ, or the doctrine that the redeemer as redeemer did not become man" (162).

Matter gave birth to passion that is without form, because it comes from what is contrary to nature, and then confusion arose in the whole body. That is why I told you, Be of good courage.7 And if you are discouraged, be encouraged in the presence of the diversity of forms of nature.8

Work was created to put the nature and character of God on display.

See how people smile when they see a butterfly? They can't help themselves. Butterflies are joy with wings.

The tamed squirrels] made jolly companions but became very annoyed with her if she read too long; one would climb onto her shoulder, down her arm and sit on the page of her book 'with bushy tail outspread'.

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.

But there is one tree that for the footer of the mountain trails is voiceless; it speaks, no doubt, but it speaks only to the austere mountain heads, to the mindful wind and the watching stars. It speaks as men speak to one another and are not heard by the little ants crawling over their boots. This is the Big Tree, the Sequoia.

Trust Indians not to miss any virtues of the plant world! Nothing

The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air.

The periods of spiritual ascension are the days and seasons of Mind's creation, in which beauty, sublimity, purity, and holiness — yea, the divine nature — appear in man and the universe never to disappear. -Mary Baker Eddy (SH 509:24)

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.

Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.

Mary Carolyn Waldrep

Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny.

The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul, Comes back with more than the first loveliness-- The all I've lost, the more I never found Haunting her beauty, while for me she weaves Of color, odor, sound, her perfect days.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love.

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.

Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Love turns animal into angel, but also conversely.

Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back.