Quotes About Nature

Eres tú flor carnal de mi jardin ideal.

If I were a bass, I'd want to be a tarpon," I

Ubi mel ibi apes.

Women, I have long believed, are the more evolved of the species and have attained some higher level of being. Men act as if we just crawled from the swamp, our webbed feet dripping brackish water as we waddle ashore, seeking to mate with a female or, lacking that, a warm patch of mud.

Instead of focusing on isolated objects and events, we can expand our fixed perspective and allow the deeper process (often taking the form of a mythic narrative of some sort) that is animating events to reveal itself. Instead of superimposing our limiting ideas and beliefs onto the waking dream, we can allow life to show its dreamlike nature to us.

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".

It was said that everyone appointed by the Reagan administration in a major public health capacity was either a Mormon or a fundamentalist. The chief spokesman for the administration now was the overripe and venomous Patrick Buchanan, one of whose major qualifications for the job was his widely quoted remark that nature was finally exacting her price on homosexuals for having spilled their seed against her.

a body on the sand. My journal gets very spotty here, with only a single detailed entry

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout...

There's nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.

L" energy is always within us, however, and we can become more aware of it not by trying harder but by slowing and quieting down to, as fifteenth-century philosopher Marsilio Ficino suggested, turn toward the mystery of our own nature the way a sunflower turns toward the sun.

To put radically asunder what nature and nature's God joined together in parenthood when he made love procreative, and to disregard the foundation of the covenant of marriage and the covenant of parenthood in the reality that makes for a loving procreation, and to attempt to soar so high above an eminently human parenthood, is inevitably to fall far below - into a vast technological alienation of man.

la vida (lo natural) no quiere todo; la palabra "todo" no tiene sentido para la vida, sino para el espíritu: el espíritu es el que quiere el "todo", el que piensa el "todo" y el que sólo descansaría en el "todo".

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

Hume failed to understand that paranormal phenomena do not violate or contradict nature; the supernatural is an extension of the natural world and conforms to universal laws.

People always had one kind of animal or another inside them.

Shirtless, they'd stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed.

Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.

The world is what it is.

Louis could never shake the suspicion that some people, whether consciously or not, called the storm to themselves.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.