Quotes About Nature

The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.

It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.

The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have to roll up your pants, jump off the boat and wade in through the surf on your own power. There's absolutely no way to do this without getting soaking wet or even banged up on the coral, but it's worth all the trouble because the beach here is so beautiful, so special

We are not alien visitors to this planet, after all but natural residents and relatives of every living entity here. This earth is where we came from and where we'll all end up when we die, and during the interim, it is our home, And there's no way we can ever hope to understand ourselves if we don't at least marginally understand our home.

Not making a living,' he wrote, on his first trip to Alaska, 'just living.

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

Four feet on the ground, a head full of foliage, looking at the world through the heart...

As humans, after all, we become that which we seek. Dairy farming makes men steady and reliable and temperate; deer hunting makes men quiet and fast and sensitive; lobster fishing makes men suspicious and wily and ruthless.

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).

the flying fish and the diving bird had been netted.

Divine Time, Geological Time, Human Time, Moss Time.

When the time is ripe for certain things, they appear at different places, in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.

Thank heavens we have an earth, or where would we sit?

Take me someplace where we can be silent together." ? Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

When the mind is tired, or the soul is disquieted, let us go to the woods and fill our lungs with the rain-washed and the sun-cleansed air, and our hearts with the beauty of tree, flower, crystal, and gem." The

The old cobbler had believed in something he called "the signature of all things"—namely, that God had hidden clues for humanity's betterment inside the design of every flower, leaf, fruit, and tree on earth. All the natural world was a divine code, Boehme claimed, containing proof of our Creator's love.

A man can't help where he's born. A cat can have kittens in the oven, but that don't make 'em biscuits.

Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.

She's a cheerful soul who's having a wonderful time living out the existence that best suits her nature and most brings her to life.

Nature provides the seed; man provides the garden; each is grateful for the other's help.

When the nineteenth-century Hungarian mathematician János Bolyai invented non-Euclidean geometry, his father urged him to publish his findings immediately, before someone else landed on the same idea, saying, "When the time is ripe for certain things, they appear at different places, in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.

Estar con cuatro pies en la tierra, una cabeza hecha de follaje, mirando el mundo con el corazón.

Stones grow. Plants grow and live. Animals grow, live, and feel").

The bright red sap of the fei plant is meant to be useful for blood ailments." "The signature of all things," Alma murmured.