Quotes About Nature

One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.

In its easiness of grammatical construction, in its paucity of inflexion, in its almost total disregard of the distinctions of gender excepting those of nature, in the simplicity and precision of its terminations and auxiliary verbs, not less than the majesty, vigour and copiousness of its expression, our mother-tongue seems well adapted by organization to become the language of the world.

Kelipah, or "shell," is the symbol frequently used in Kabbalah to denote "evil" and the source of sensual desires in human nature. See Schochet, Mystical

There is no pleasure of life sprouting like a tree from one root but there is some pain joined to it; and again nature brings good out of evil.

The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

From the feelings proper to it, [man's nature] is constituted for the practice of what is good.

The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards.

and, the highlight, Cristiano Ronaldo weeping on the grass after a knee injury in the 24th minute, while a lone Autographa gamma sips his teardrops away.

Pujava olor d'aigua de riu com si fos l'aigua mateixa que visqués enlaire i que només sabia passar pel seu camí de vena.

Potser ens dirà que se li acaba de morir el marit escanyat o que té la lepra. Ja estic fins al capdamunt de les tristeses dels altres... Miri, miri, com s'enrabia... - Qui? - El mar. - Deu estar tip de sentir-nos.

I caught her one day eating a bee. When she realized I was watching, she spit it out, saying the bee had flown into her mouth. But I knew that she ate bees. She would choose the ones that had drunk the most wisteria juice and keep them alive in her mouth for a moment, let them play a little before swallowing.

This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

to that place where no one could hear me but the sand when I walked upon it, where I could write and work, where I could read and sleep, where no one needed me except the shoreline to remark upon its incredible beauty.

Autumn vineyards rolled up the hills in deep red lines behind my house.

would go through a decision tree to decide what to do: if it is a living thing like a person or a dog, slow down; if it is a living thing like a bird, it will probably move out of the way, so no need to slow down.

Perhaps periods of anxiety, sadness, panic, and sheer craziness are just part of the mental continuum that nature has provided to help us stay alive, make babies, and pass on genes.

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.

When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

I am the wilderness lost in man.

Audubon considered it a bad day if he didn't shoot a hundred birds. "It's amazing that his name has become synonymous with conservation.

Back there our sun doesn't speak. -Where's "there," Miss Marta? -Back there, in Europe. Here, it's different. Here, the sun moans, whispers, shouts. -Surely-I commented delicately-the sun is always the same. - You're wrong. There, the sun is a stone. Here it's a fruit.

O voar não vem da asa. O beija-flor, tão abreviadinho de asa, não é o que voa mais perfeito?