Quotes About Nature

Die offenkundig demokratische Gesinnung des Kindes kennt keine Hierarchie. Das Schicksal eines Tagelöhners in seinem Schweiß, eines hungrigen Altersgenossen, eines gequälten Pferdes und eines geschlachteten Huhnes machen es eine Zeitlang traurig. Hund und Vogel, Schmetterlinge und Blume stehen ihm nahe, in einem Steinchen oder in der Muschel sieht es seinen Bruder.

A land is precious, but ours is to be revered.

A tree is a fantastic example of beauty, but who has time to look at a tree?

He looked at his cactus again, the enormous green phallus, the thorned phallus.

His classes... had committed mutiny. The simplest, most innocent concepts turned overnight into enemies, capable of triggering full system shutdown. Light is not light but energy. A person will never see his own face, just its reflection, or a photograph of it. Brain waves are more active during dreams than waking life. Roses don't smell beautiful; they smell like ripe fruit, which is good for survival, and so they're defined as beautiful in our aesthetic beliefs.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

It's okay to applaud the laws of physics.

Nietzsche: "I call an animal, a species, an individual corrupt, when it loses its instincts, when it prefers what is injurious to it.

A good way to enjoy the experiences of summer early is to get a winter sunburn.

Usko on käärmeen jäljet kalliolla.

Kysymys : Miksi on enemmän kaneja kuin oravia? Vastaus : Yrittäisit itse nussia puussa.

If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt.

I once got attacked by a bearskin rug, two days before it was a rug.

I want to say something so embarrassing about September that even the leaves start blushing and turning red.

A lad changed to a shrub in spring, the shrub into a shepherd boy, A fine hair to a lyre string, snow into snow on hair piled high.

Nature didn't disturb the peace, people did.

I still like to think of Richey as being holed up in a Welsh valley somewhere, with a pile of books and a dog.

The only way that apple trees, lilies, marriage and sex, gender and procreation, or even Bibles or language can reveal to us so much about the nature of God is that they're good gifts that bear the imprint of their divine Maker.

the nature of desire is the same. We notice others' desire. It shapes ours. ... Desire is what makes us human. No wonder—God planted it in us to lure us back to God's self.

A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.

It's why we like real flowers that wilt, not perfect plastic ones that never change.

There's a beauty to imperfection. This is the essence of the Japanese principle of wabi-sabi.

When all the people unlocked their doors, they saw that the kingdom had changed. With the towns quiet and the roads empty, the land had grown greener and the skies had grown bluer. The trees were taller, there were flowers everywhere and the air was filled with the singing of birds.

Eagles may soar in the clouds, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.