Quotes About Nature

It's worth it, I thought. Just for this, for a few moments of the almost sublime, even if I had to half talk my way into it, and allow myself the cliché of being impressed by Niagara Falls.

There were times when he had the air of a mystic about him, as children sometimes do, as if he were staring calmly into the nature of things and had the wisdom to know there were no words for it. But more often his prescience spun him into worry.

And you could always tell ginger plants whose tap root had penetrated a corpse: the blooms were large, iridescent yellow, and it was hard to jerk loose a plant whose roots had hooked a rib below.

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

To win their battles, these kinds of underdogs rely on their own and one another's ability to absorb violence. They find their might in their nature. They believe victory is assured by their nature, and as long as they act in accordance with their nature, they will claim it. Because they are able to fight, they must fight.

Watch me like a vulture watches a fat mammal that is limping across the floor of a rocky canyon with its tongue out even though I'm your friend who you would never eat.

Ty mnie zabi?e?! - ty mnie nauczy?e? czyta?! W pi?knych ksi?gach i pi?knym przyrodzeniu czyta?! Ty dla mnie ziemi? piek?em zrobi?e? (z ?alem i u?miechem) i rajem! (mocniej i ze wzgard?) A to jest tylko ziemia!

Spotykam ludzi – z rozros?ymi barki, Z piersi? szerok?, z oty?ymi karki; Jako zwierz?ta i drzewa pó?nocy, Pe?ni czerstwo?ci i zdrowia, i mocy. Lecz twarz ka?dego jest jak ich kraina, Pusta, otwarta i dzika równina;(...).

No frogs can sing as well as Polish ones.

Look at them on days like that, when the wind is blowing through the boundaries of fresh and stiff, and you will see them for what they are: wind-runners, wind-dancers, the wind-spirits, alive with an evolved ability to live with the wind, in it and on it, drawing out its energy to make their own feathered, mobile, ocean-ranging magnificence.

Look at a wild creature- even hold it in your hand- and it is obvious that you don't 'have' it. You hold it but everything it is stretches far beyond your enclosing fingers, in time and space and through its own interior existence. You may posess it, even for a moment, but it is not yours... Whatever it is to be known remains outside the grip of our knowing it.

and I said it is the nature of love to be infinite and in such an ocean any fear and jealousy is washed away

a society dependent on plantation slavery could not defend itself. "This Country is strong by Nature," the committee asserted, "but extremely weak from the nature of its population

Duplication and transfer from other genetic sources are examples of nature's ability to co-opt existing tools: evolution the tinkerer. Evolution also creates from scratch. We call these de novo mutations, and they arise when a seemingly nonsensical run of DNA mutates and changes into a readable sentence.

All life is set for extinction over a long enough timescale; more than 97 percent of species that have ever existed are already gone.

Biologists sometimes get physics envy, because every time we find out one of our big rules – universal genetics, evolution by natural selection – things look more complex within them as soon as we begin to look.

There are maybe 9,000 bird species living today, which is not quite double the number of mammal species.

despite what you might have read, genetics won't tell you how smart your kids will be, or what sports they should play, or what gender person they might fancy, or how they will die, or why some people commit acts of heinous violence and murder. Just as important as what genetics can tell us is what it can't.

We often deploy the clumsy ideas of nature and nurture to describe what is innate in us, and what is extrinsic. What this really means is: genetics (that is, what is encoded in DNA), and everything else in the universe. Your genome is a script, etched into the kernel at the center of your cells, but the film of your life is played out in the countless forces that determine how that script is performed. Nature was never versus nurture; it is and always was via.

Adam Rutherford

was not an apple that gave us this knowledge – apples are a product of our own agricultural ingenuity. It was how we lived our lives.

Genes are the units of inheritance, the things that are selected by nature to be carried into the future. Nature sees the physical manifestation of a gene—the phenotype—and as a result of that trait enhancing survival, the DNA underwriting it succeeds, and is passed on down the generations. Genes are the templates on which our lives are built.

In fact, sexual acts between members of the same sex abound in nature, in thousands of animals, and, for example, may well dominate male giraffe sexual encounters.