Quotes About Nature

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.

Snow is falling outside and all is peaceful and still. In such moments it is possible to believe that the world could still be good.

The natives used to tie their enemies to the tree. The ants would eat them alive.

They are like pythons in the jungle. The smallest child can crush a python egg. But let the snake hatch and grow and the python with squeeze and devour the child.

in property or rights. Equality is not the nature of the world or even the universe. Even if you could guarantee everyone the same wealth, humans would reject the idea. They would simply find a different standard to create castes, as there will always be differences in intelligence, physical strength, and beauty.

you can take the man out of the evil, but can you take the evil out of the man?

there has never been nor ever will be true equality, in property or rights. Equality is not the nature of the world or even the universe. Even if you could guarantee everyone the same wealth, humans would reject the idea. They would simply find a different standard to create castes, as there will always be differences in intelligence, physical strength, and beauty.

Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

A fresh lightning tree sprouted in the distance as Mother Nature painted the sky in rapid strokes, strobed the results, and then erased her magnificent creation, leaving its after-image burned into Rolf's retinas. So beautiful. So fleeting. Like life itself.

What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.

This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.

People aren't the apex species they think they are. Other creatures-bigger, smaller, slower, faster, older, younger, more powerful-call the shots, make the air, and eat sunlight. Without them, nothing.

You and the tree in your backyard come from a common ancestor. A billion and a half years ago, the two of you parted ways. But even now, after an immense journey in separate directions, that tree and you still share a quarter of your genes. . . .

Buddha's words: A tree is a wondrous thing that shelters, feeds, and protects all living things. It even offers shade to the axmen who destroy it.

Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way.

A great truth comes over him: Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.

We've learned a little about a few of them, in isolation. But nothing is less isolated or more social than a tree.

Life will cook; the seas will rise. The planet's lungs will be ripped out. And the law will let this happen, because harm was never imminent enough. Imminent, at the speed of people, is too late. The law must judge imminent at the speed of trees.

Trees have long been trying to reach us. But they speak on frequencies too low for people to hear.

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.