Quotes About Nature

Rue, sage, rosemary, gilvers, gromwell, ginger, mint, thyme, columbine, herb of grace, savoury, mustard, every manner of herb grew here, fennel, tansy, basil and dill, parsley, chervil and marjoram. He had taught the uses even of the unfamiliar

Notes of the same key respond to one another; Odors of the same nature merge together. Water flows toward what is wet, Fire rises toward what is dry. Clouds follow dragons; Winds follow tigers.

Just as the poppy and the dandelion are scythed down in the flower of their youth by the pitiless scythe of the pitiless scyther who pitilessly scythes their pitiful pans, so poor Renski has played the pretty poppy's pitiful part.

The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform.

Punctul final al c?l?toriei lor era un castel în apropierea c?rora se aflau ele?tee. Au ajuns la aceste ele?tee într-o minunat? dup?-amiaz? de var? târzie. Cerul era atât de albastru încât Gottfried nu s-a jenat s?-i spun? tat?lui: "Uite ce albastru e cerul aici".

Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law was and is to protect the past and present status of society and, by its very essence, must be very conservative, if not reactionary. Theology and law are both of them static by their nature.5

41. "The idols of the tribe are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of man; for man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind resembles these uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.

What is achieved in blaming a man for being selfish and greedy if he acts under the influence of a social environment and education which teach him that he is an animal and that selfishness and greediness are of the essence of his nature?

Why not? Because humans through their time-binding capacity are first of all creators and so their number is not controlled by the supply of unaided nature, but only by men's artificial productivity, which is the materialization of their time-binding capacity

It must not be lost sight of in this connection that the human class of life is a part and a product of nature, and that, therefore, there must be fundamental laws which are natural for this class of life. A stone obeys the natural laws of stones; a liquid conforms to the natural law of liquids; a plant, to the natural laws of plants; an animal, to the natural laws of animals; it follows inevitably that there must be natural laws for humans.

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.

Only a few yards away a little stream of fresh

water was running down from the glaciers high above. A moment later all six were on their knees, drinking.

strange shape appeared, moving deliberately across a nearby section of their old floe.

In appearance, the Endurance was beautiful by any standards.

Their floe, which had once measured a mile in diameter, was now less than 200 yards across.

was populated by hundreds of sea elephants, enough to keep them supplied with food and fuel indefinitely

They are often of hurricane intensity and with gust velocities sometimes attaining to 150 to 200 miles per hour.

The overcast sky seemed almost alive with birds—Cape pigeons, terns, fulmars

Whales, too, seemed everywhere. They surfaced on all sides, sometimes frighteningly close

The sea leopard's jawbone, which measured nearly 9 inches across

Charles Darwin, on first seeing these waves breaking on Tierra del Fuego in 1833, wrote in his diary:

Before long the rain turned into sleet, then hail that drummed across the decking.

The rollers that raced shoreward were perhaps 40 feet high, maybe more.