Quotes About Nature

La defensa de los individuos y de las comunidades, de los árboles y de las semillas, contra el dogmatismo de las ideas; la defensa de los ríos y los bosques contra las arrogancias del mercado mundial.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course. —Voltaire

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course.

To claim the world as created is to claim God's care for it and our responsibility to care for it.

Job, behold the Snout: Even when the pond dries up, it is not alarmed. It remains confident, even above the face of the waters. Do not mock the Snout, Job, for in three hundred and seventy-five million years, its face would be your own.

You can't lead bunny lives and write tiger poetry.

Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately complex interweaving of its parts, a means to an end. Surely you wouldn't think this marvel would have come about by itself. The watch must have a maker. Just as the watch has such complex means to an end, so does nature to a much greater extent. Just look at the complexity of the human eye. Thus we must conclude that nature has a maker too.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

Ultimately, the wolves themselves made the reintroduction work.

Dreadful as all these processes may seem, they are only the resolution of certain carbon-based compounds into certain other carbon-based compounds. Carbon is the element of life and death. We share it with diamonds and dandelions, with kerosene an kelp. While we may wrinkle our noses at some of its manifestations, we ought also to remember that this element comes to us from the stars, which wheel over us forever in silent, glittering array, pure fires obeying celestial laws.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

Mysticism may be defined as the attempt to realise the presence of the living God in the soul and in nature, or, more generally, as the attempt to realise, in thought and feeling, the immanence of the temporal in the eternal, and of the eternal in the temporal.

The Divine nature is Rest," he says in one of the German discourses; and in the Latin fragments we find: "God rests in Himself, and makes all things rest in Him.

Gone hath the Spring, with all its flowers, and gone the Summer's pomp and show, and Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the Winter's

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.

Requiring cats to hunt like dogs will benefit only the mice.

Trees are green gold

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.