Quotes About Nature

Animists thought that humans were just one of many creatures inhabiting the world. Polytheists, on the other hand, increasingly saw the world as a reflection of the relationship between gods and humans.

el cazador-recolector medio tenía un conocimiento más amplio, más profundo y más variado de su entorno inmediato que la mayoría de sus descendientes modernos. Hoy

Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don't tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night.

Your boss wants you to constantly check your emails rather than smell flowers or dream about fairies.

W rzeczywisto?ci nasze poj?cia "naturalnego" i "nienaturalnego" nie wywodz? si? z biologii, ale z teologii chrze?cija?skiej.

ecological collapse.

Within a few thousand years, virtually all of these giants vanished. Of the twenty-four Australian animal species weighing fifty kilograms or more, twenty-three became extinct.2

Is the division into men and women a product of the imagination, like the caste system in India and the racial system in America, or is it a natural division with deep biological roots? And if it is indeed a natural division, are there also biological explanations for the preference given to men over women?

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

I don't really believe that humans are evil; it is just that we are not very intelligent animals. No animal is so stupid as to foul its only nest, except humans.

Paganism is more of an attitude of mind than a fixed creed. It is always tempting to ask, "what do Pagans believe?" but a better question is "what do Pagans do?

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

when he walks, he sounds like a tree still full of dead leaves holding on.

You are so high in the tree. If you jump you will live a full life while falling. You will get married to a hummingbird and raise beautiful part- hummingbirds. You will die of cancer in mid-air. I will not lie. It will be painful. You are a brave little boy or girl.

Inside the woods is an abandoned hotel. Trees grow in the lobby and up through the rooms. Limbs jut out through the windows. It looks like outside inside. I climb the trees through 1000 rooms. I look for you in each of them. You're a long shiny line.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

In Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world.

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality

Poate c? din sîngele cu care oamenii au stropit, au ad?pat, dar n-au s?turat înc? p?mîntul, r?sar macii ro?ii, aceste flori de sînge care acoper? ici-colo galbenul lanurilor de grîu, în fiecare început de var?. Poate c? macii ace?tia r?sar ?i înfloresc ca s? ne spun?: — E timpul s? nu mai v?rsa?i sînge! Poate... Cunoa?te cineva tainele lumii?

Descul?ii strig?: p?mînt, p?mînt, p?mînt!... P?mînt este ?i, totu?i, p?mînt nu este. Sau, nu e al cui îl strope?te cu sudoarea.

Muncim ?i r?mînem t?cu?i. T?cu?i. T?cu?i ca p?mîntul. Dar ?i p?mîntul uneori muge?te lung ?i se cutremur? din temelii. ?i p?mîntul se r?zvr?te?te uneori.

p?mîntul este gr?dina înflorit? a universului ?i în aceast? minunat? gr?din? omul este cea mai frumoas? floare. Oamenii sînt florile p?mîntului.

Oamenii ar putea fi florile p?mîntului. ?i, negre?it, vor fi într-o zi florile p?mîntului. Mai e pîn? atunci...