Quotes About Nature

Ah ! si la rêverie était toujours possible ! Et si le somnambule, en étendant la main, Ne trouvait pas toujours la nature inflexible Qui lui heurte le front contre un pilier d'airain ! Si l'on pouvait se faire une armure insensible ! Si l'on rassasiait l'amour comme la faim !

Sirkte yaralanan bo?alar, s?rtlar?nda matadorun k?l?c?yla, bir kö?ede yatmaya gitmek ve sükûn içinde ölmekte serbesttirler. ?urada veya burada, söyleyin bana, ne yapmaya gideyim. Bana temiz bir sema, a?açlar ve evler, konu?an, içen, ?ark? söyleyen adamlar, rakseden kad?nlar ve doludizgin ko?an atlar göstereceksiniz. Bütün bunlar hayat de?ildir, hayat?n gürültüsüdür.

I love the sound of the horn, at night, in the depth of the woods.

God! how sad is the sound of the horn deep in the woods!

I [Nature] am called a mother, but I am a grave.

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

The lakes in Washington State give us tons of crawfish.

A lot of Washington state is beautiful. You have just tons of mountains, beautiful bodies of water, you have a lot of rolling hills in eastern Washington. I'm biased, obviously, but there's not a lot of places in the world that are like where I grew up.

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose.

Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain.

Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide.

There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!

Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city.

We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you're laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.