Quotes About Nature

Nature is one body. We can say that while human beings and insects are part of nature, they also represent nature as a whole. And if that is so, when we harm plants, microorganisms, and insects through large-scale conventional agriculture (to just use one example), we are harming humanity as well.

I contadini dappertutto nel mondo sono fondamentalmente gli stessi. Lasciateci dire che la chiave per la pace si trova vicino alla terra.

One question I have about this theory (*Darwin) is: What basis was used to determine which species are higher or lower, and which are strong or weak? To decide that the phenomenon of the survival of the fittest is the providence of nature and that people are the highest, most evolved species seems to reflect more the strongman logic of human beings than the true state of nature. No one can say which species is the strongest because all living things depend on one another to survive (...)

It is true that all forms of life, by necessity and by natural design, consume one another to live but they do not intentionally bring about another's extinction, systematically deprive other species of their source of food, or create factions and wars. They same cannot be said for human beings.

In nature's cyclical rhythms, there are no ground for the discriminatory view that underlies Darwin's view of superiority and inferiority that deems some organisms as lower, and others as higher. It would be more appropriate to say we are all one continuous life-form.

The destruction of nature will lead to the destruction of the human race, but many people seem to be convinced that even if humans should disappear, they will be brought to life again by the hand of their god. This idea, however, is nothing more than fantasy. The human race will not be born again. When the people on the earth have died out, there will be no God or Buddha to rescue them.

Ch?a lành ??t Ä'ai cÅ©ng là ch?a lành linh h?n con ng??i

Buddhism is originally not a religion of faith in a transcendent deity but a religion of awakening to the true nature of self and others.

The memory of life arrived on this earth carried by the soul of water. From this memory, life awoke, the human being emerged...

While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.

Water records information, and while circulating throughout the earth distributes information. This water sent from the universe is full of the information of life...

In the process of falling to the earth, seeping into the ground, and then emerging, water obtain information from various minerals and becomes wise.

We must begin by learning what it means to have enough… to feel gratitude for having been born on a planet so rich in nature and gratitude for the water that makes our life possible. If you open your eyes you will see that the world is full of so much that deserves our gratitude. When you have become the embodiment of gratitude, think about how pure the water that fills your body will be. When this happens, you, yourself will be a beautiful shining crystal of light.

Love and gratitude This crystal is as perfect as can be. This indicates that love and gratitude are fundamental to the phenomenon of life in all of nature.

Magic lives in curves, not angles.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

in the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists

the nature of the world (and by extension, one's place in it) and the nature of human reasoning (including when it fails, as it so often does).

Epicureans, from the beginning, rejected idealisms and absolutes that divorced people from context and from nature, and chose to engage reality instead. Our morality is contextual. Rather than hand down absolute dos and don'ts, the first Epicureans elaborated methods by which we can most effectively use our faculties.

Algunas cosas están en nuestro poder, otras no Debemos hacer lo mejor con las cosas que están en nuestro poder, y tomar el resto como las presenta la naturaleza. EPICTETO, Disertaciones, I.1

Hay una gran diferencia entre la alegría y el dolor; si me piden que elija, buscaré la primera y evitaré la segunda. La primera está de acuerdo con la naturaleza, la segunda es contraria a ella.

The ancient Epicureans observed that, since we are all made of particles and we observe no sentience after death, fear-based religion is unnecessary and people should focus on living well. After we die, the particles in our bodies return to nature and are recycled into other bodies. There are important ethical repercussions once we accept that we get only one life.

Como biólogo especializado precisamente en el estudio de la naturaleza frente a la nutrición, no puedo dejar de destacar hasta qué punto nuestros hábitos están condicionados por la interacción más temprana entre nuestros genes y el entorno de nuestra infancia y juventud.

Massimo Pigliucci