Quotes About Nature

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

<...> I've never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so.

The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?

True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.

Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.

The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.

In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.

I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such an appreciation for beauty and kindness that it was inherent.