Quotes About Nature

Time amid the silence of nature, in other words, makes you smarter.

Jefferies wrote, in his autobiography The Story of My Heart, that the type of life celebrated by society, one of hard work and unceasing chores and constant routine, does nothing but "build a wall about the mind.

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Some items had been in place for so long that the trees grew around them. A claw hammer was nearly swallowed by a tree trunk, impossible to remove, and Hughes said that this hammer, more than anything, made him realize how long Knight had lived there.

Japanese researchers at Chiba University found that a daily fifteen-minute walk in the woods caused significant decreases in cortisol, along with a modest drop in blood pressure and heart rate.

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

The outward signs of his priestly vocation were abandoned in a wooden footlocker. Like a casket. He shed his blood-stained prayer stole, his clerical collar, and a photo of his investiture as a priest that was folded down the middle – as if the crease itself depicted his divided nature. Good man. Bad man. Sinner. Saint. Christian. Buddhist.

One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.

Her bir ?eyin varl???n? sürdürmede kulland??? çaba, esas?nda o ?eyin bizatihi özünden ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles — or perhaps caricatures — of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its own enemies is lunch.

A Snake And Skull

Forget-me-not blue

Blue and Bronze

Queerditch Marsh

Aquamarine Forget-me-not blue Turquoise

Newt Scamander

Yellow and Black

Professor Sprout

Black and green

Pomona Sprout

The lake i had grown up on was protected by thousands of acres of private forests. It kept out the reality of a harsher world and surrounded me with fun and privilege

Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.