Quotes About Nature

Death, like birth, is a secret of nature." Only with birth you get a blanket and a bottle. You get a blanket with death too, but they call it a shroud and everyone else gets the bottle.

SOCIETY IS A CARNIVOROUS FLOWER

Your image of yourself is one of a beast. A benevolent one, but a beast nonetheless. As much as this might pain you, it is also easy and familiar. It allows you to do away with deeper emotions.

God's nature has always been multifold, and never more than now. He dances with a dove in one hand and an ax in the other.

Goddamn nature. All it wants to do is hitch a ride, kill you, or sting you. Sometimes all at once.

I pick up a long, charcoal-gray silk overcoat at a West Hollywood rent-boy boutique. Anything heavier than silk will look ridiculous in L.A., and wearing a black overcoat is nature's way of telling you to lay off the Bauhaus.

What does that stupid song mean? What's supposed to be in my heart? I go over the lyrics a couple more times in my head. "All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful, / The Lord God made them all." Basically, it's saying that God made everything and everything is just great. This thing is a damn Disney nightmare. God made everything and everything is great.

The Magistrate says, "I am a student of human nature, did you know that, Mr. Pitts?" "It beats beekeeping, I guess." He smiles infinitesimally.

Interesting fact: Most crabs don't have even a basic grasp of physics.

Unutmay?n, bugün ne kadar bencil, zalim, duyars?z olmu?san?z olun, her nefes al???n?zda bir çiçe?i mutlu etmektesiniz.

Everything made by men will be destroyed by nature in the end. Mountains and river, the creations of nature -- they will remain. Everything human, that will go. We nee to reconsider the respect we give to nature.

IT TAKES TIME—loose, unstructured dreamtime—to experience nature in a meaningful way.

What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

Nature—the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful—offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot.

Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illness. This disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.

Wilson defines biophilia as "the urge to affiliate with other forms of life.

Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order. Many parents now believe outdoor play is verboten even when it is not; perception is nine-tenths of the law.

I have a soft spot in my heart for tree houses, which have always imparted certain magic and practical knowledge.

Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it.

Though we often see ourselves as separate from nature, humans are also part of that wildness.

one of the main benefits of spending time in nature is stress reduction.

Going out into nature was one outlet that I had, which truly allowed me to calm down and not think or worry.

I played around our yard some and talked to the fence posts, sung songs and made the weeds sing . . . —WOODY GUTHRIE

There is a canyon within a reasonable distance of nearly every school in the city," [Elaine Brooks] pointed out. What an exciting prospect, she said - a network of natural libraries for teaching children about the region's rare and fragile ecosystems - and about themselves.