Quotes About Nature

Real, but sometimes beautiful.

Bueno… Pues, a lo mejor, si hace buen día, llevaré un pícnic y podemos comer en el parque. No hace falta ni que entremos al museo si no quieres.

A veces me imaginaba que yo también era un pájaro como los que creía ver al otro lado de la bahía, y que podría volar hasta allí.

It's raining, Annie.

And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing, for the small dragons that live under the streets.

My love is like a red, red rose...

The argument went that happy, healthy European women moved closer to nature in America. Like deer in the wild, women in the New World became instinctive, docile breeders.

even beyond class issues, Jackson's candidacy changed the nature of democratic politics. One political commentator noted that Jackson's reign ushered in the "game of brag.

The best things in life really are free. So, how many kittens do you want?

Once they are gone, they are gone forever. ---- Sheila Colla, referring to our endangered native bees, as noted on the blog Liber Ero (from the book The Humane Gardener)

Because God created male and female, we women are innately feminine. Granted, a woman can accentuate her femininity or she can detract from it, but she cannot change it—our sex chromosomes are in every cell of our bodies. Our femininity is a gift of grace from a loving God.

The apple blossoms were just out, dancing like white froth in the April breezes.

It's the first time I've seen early morning in a terribly long time— The sun all yellow and red, like a huge luminous peach hanging on a black shadow-tree—just visible thru the mist—

Sun, silence, and happiness.

The truth of the matter is that many health professionals have an intrinsic mistrust of nature. We are taught as pediatricians, for example, that a baby is sick unless proved otherwise. This isn't usually said in so many words, but it is the message behind what we do. The fear of litigation plays a large part in this. As pediatricians, we're always assuming the worst,

I lifted my face to the sun and let its warmth and light caress me with its favor.

You wild, dear creatures!

The contemporary design argument does not rest, however, on gaps in our knowledge but rather on the growth in our knowledge due to the revolution in molecular biology. Information theory has taught us that nature exhibits two types of order. The first type is produced by natural causes-shiny crystals, hexagonal patterns in oil, whirlpools in the bathtub. But the second type-the complex structure of the DNA molecule-is not produced by any natural processes known to experience.

The Galileo saga is typically told as a conflict between science and religion. But in reality it was a conflict among Christians over the correct philosophy of nature. Was it Aristotle's quality or Galileo's quantity? Galileo's victory was the triumph of the idea that the nature is constructed on a mathematical blueprint.

Even materialists often admit that, in practice, it is impossible for humans to live any other way. One philosopher jokes that if people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, "Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined I will get.

We can call this view liberalism, employing a definition by the self-described liberal philosopher Peter Berkowitz. In his words, "Each generation of liberal thinkers" focuses on "dimensions of life previously regarded as fixed by nature," then seeks to show that in reality they are "subject to human will and remaking.

The ordered patterns in nature are not logically necessary. They are contingent on God's will.

Randall concludes, "When science seemed to take God out of the universe, men had to deify some natural force, like 'evolution.

The whole creation of God preaches