Quotes About Nature

Une ombre attaquera la forêt, et nul ne pourra s'y opposer. Alors viendra Celui-qui-Ecoute. Son arme, c'est l'air ; et son langage le silence.

El Bosque tenía todo lo que uno podía desear. Hasta entonces nunca se había dado cuenta de lo mucho que lo apreciaba.

It stood. It faced me. Dark, dark against the sea. I saw its arms hanging at its sides. I saw that one shoulder was higher than the other. I saw its wet round head.

It melted into the shadows. It had left no tracks; only a branch,

He said wolves are special, because they make strong music.

How do you know all these things?' He shrugged. 'It's boring being a goatherd. Nothing to do except watch goats. If I hadn't watched other creatures, I'd have gone mad.

Toen klaarde haar gezicht op. 'Betekent dat dat je blijft?' 'Dat weet ik nog niet.' 'Je moet blijven.' 'Ik hoor hier niet.' Ze snoof. 'Dat weet ik ook wel. Maar er is geen enkele andere plek waar je wel hoort, toch?' Daarna lachte ze hem met haar scherpe tandjes toe, sloeg haar boog om haar schouder en liep tussen de bomen door weg.

Torak and Wolf looked at her in surprise, and she found herself facing two pairs of wolf eyes: one amber, one light-grey.

Forget about your scar,' he told her. 'It doesn't matter. The Moon has scars, but it's still beautiful.

Maar wie zijn wij om vragen te stellen over de wijze waarop de Hertenstam met de dingen omgaat?' zei ze net zo uit de hoogte als Durrain. Hij grijnsde breed. 'Ja, dat zou een dom lid van de Ravenstam zoals jij niet moeten doen.' Ze gaf hem een por in zijn ribben.

Eigenlijk had hij het al veel Lichten en Donkers geweten, maar hij had het niet willen toegeven. Zonder Staart was niet-wolf.

Drie pijlen om een volwassenen everzwijn mee neer te schieten. Dat was bijna hetzelfde als een eland met een bosje bloemen doodmeppen.

Het voelde of ik werd losgetrokken, had Torak gezegd. Het voelde alsof ik de vis was.

A bee bumped against the wall.

Wolf longed to be with them - but they were Not-Breath. He didn't understand how this could be. Darkfur and the cubs were…not. Wolf shut his eyes. He wanted to be not too.

It's snowing." Rhys looked up at the light flakes that had started to drift down. "Yes, it is." I grimaced as I got smacked in the eyeball with a large wet flake when I looked up.

Everything God made is beautiful.

Did you know that if a person talks out loud to a plant consistently, it will grow faster? Look, I didn't believe it when I first heard it either. But it's true! Matter of fact, one study showed that plants not only grow better when talked to regularly, but that a woman's voice makes a plant grow faster than a man's.1 Okay, now ladies! Talk about girl power. Your voice—your inner voice too—gives life to whatever you give it to.

Surely, if nature had intended us to be governed by our gonads, she wouldn't have endowed us with an intellect.

In the end, the term 'circularity' may just be one way to make us aware that we need a more encompassing, integrated and restorative sustainability path that includes people as much as technology and nature.

Increasingly we are acknowledging that people (and their technologies) are just as much part of our 'ecologies' as are nature and the physical features of our planet.

Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationship, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life.

Europe's ranges looked Lilliputian in comparison. Eckenstein's men crossed vast glaciers, covered in huge rocks, riven by streams up to 100 ft wide. In Switzerland a typical glacier might culminate with a rocky terminal moraine a few hundred feet high, but here, according to Crowley, some of them soared up to 1500 ft.

I felt that all my previous life had reached a climax in these hours of intense struggle against nature… in those minutes at 26,000 feet on K2, I reached depths of feeling which I can never reach again.