Quotes About Nature

La fe más prometedora para el futuro podría basarse en la comprensión de que el universo entero es un sistema relacionado por leyes comunes y que no tiene sentido imponer nuestros sueños y deseos sobre la naturaleza sin tenerla en cuenta.

Part of the answer probably has to do with innate genetic causes.

I feel that all the various features of Nature around me…provoked an emotional reaction in the depth of my soul, which I have tried to transcribe in music" wrote Franz Liszt during his stay here.

If one reads the biographies of physicists like Bohr, Heisenberg, Chandrashekhar, and Bethe, one gets the impression that without hikes in the mountains and the vision of night skies their science would not have amounted to much.

En su maldad, el hombre es más cruel y más endurecido que el cocodrilo del río y corazón es más duro que la piedra

Syksy on tullut, lehdet ovat lakastuneet, sinut ja minut luotiin elämään ajan syksyä. Kaikki ajatukset on ajateltu loppuun, mitään uutta ei enää voi tapahtua, sydämet ovat väsyneet maailmaan.

great machine, stripped of her last coverings, poised on the greensward

No matter what the terrain, everything in creation does what God designed it to do. Cacti grow up, not down. Wind blows. Rocks lie there. Snakes slither. Birds fly. Flowers bloom on schedule. There's really only one part of creation that regularly tries to operate outside God's design. That's us.

The galaxy's huge, but humanity's still only settled pinpricks of it," Rourke replied, turning and leading the way towards the cargo bay once more, "and people who've made a career of doing the sort of things we do . . . well, we tend to cluster around the same pinpricks. It's the nature of the business.

Just because you were human didn't mean you weren't a monster.

After 'cat', Lilah next learned 'flower'. Flowers (scrunch up nose as if sniffing) were everywhere, first only outside on plants, but soon she generalized to flowers on her clothes or her shoes, or in pictures in books and magazines. I wanted to hook up wires and do experiments and comparisons and studies to understand it all. 'You want to do what?' Diane would say. But really, who wouldn't?

If you go, go in Peace it makes the flowers sweeter along the path.

My connection to the earth is reinforced through the rhythm of the waves.

The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

Look to life's beauty for truth. And look to what hurts for its beauty.

Rising suns and babbling brooks. Tropical forests and sleeping meadows. Modern marvels and scientific breakthroughs. Exciting discoveries and limitless frontiers. Devoted friends and caring strangers. Lives and loves and souls to hold so close, your heart could burst . . .

Sooner or later change kills everything, mate,' I say. 'It's the way of the world.

Avant d'attaquer chaque nouvelle journée de marche, j'applique une vieille recette esquimaude qui consiste à me moucher dans mes doigts et à étaler le résultat sur mon visage. Qu'on se rassure : il ne s'agit que d'un liquide transparent, qui gèle et forme un masque antigelures plus efficace que toutes les crèmes – ce qui m'évite d'en transporter une, puisque j'ai le nez qui coule en permanence.

the physical world gone down in flames mountains, rivers and lakes and pulling with it all those human rhythms that bind us together and draw the world into a community, those daily rites, rhythms and rituals upholding the world like solar bones, that rarefied amalgam of time and light whose extension through every minute of the day is visible from the moment I get up in the morning and stand at the kitchen window with a mug of tea in my hand

No rain but thunder, and the sound of giants.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

At difficult times in my life Nature has always offered me refuge. For me it is not 'environment' or a 'place of leisure and relaxation' but a temple in which I experience feelings that are almost religious.

And over the village slipped the days, passing into the nights; the weeks flowed by, the months crept on, the wind howled, and glassified with an autumnal, translucent, greenish-azure, The Don flowed tranquilly down to the sea.