Quotes About Nature

Area X was all around them. Area X was contained in no one place or figure.

I hope to find Area X in Area X.

To smell mixed with the strong coffee the faint pleasant scent of cedar from the ceiling's wooden beams. To be quiet and still and have all thought be channeled into observing the lives of creatures that stirred only after Sam had gone to sleep. It felt, over time, like not just a distraction but being part of something that as yet required nothing from her.

I was thinking, we're kind of distant cousins, aren't we, us and the horses. But compared to that thing up there—we're brothers. You know?

The biologist was coming down the hillside. In all her glory and monstrosity.

in the off-season, when even the beach is a poem about loneliness.

A ghost bird might be a hawk in one place, a crow in another, depending on the context. The sparrow that shot up into the blue sky one morning might transform mid-flight into an osprey the next. This was the way of things here. There were no reasons so mighty that they could override the desire to be in accord with the tides and the passage of seasons and the rhythms underlying everything around me.

Jedynym rozwiÄ…zaniem dla Å›rodowiska naturalnego jest zaniedbanie, które wymaga naszego upadku.

It is a curious fact of nature that that which is in plain view is oft best hidden. I

And man is the greatest killer, the greatest hunter of them all. The whole world of nature knows man for the irresistible master. The roar of his gun, the cunning of his trap, the strength and agility of his arm place all else beneath him. Should man then be treated by nature differently from the other dominants, the army ants and the wasps? It

Nature practices deceptions in every angle. Evolution will create a being for any niche that can be found, no matter how unlikely. When

A name was a dangerous luxury here.

Jeff VanderMeer

Would that not be the final humbling of the human condition? That the trees and birds, the fox and the rabbit, the wolf and the deer Ã¢â'¬Â¦ reach a point at which they do not even notice us, as we are transformed.

The only solution to the environment is neglect, which requires our collapse." A

would destroy the planet or save it? In its recognition of her, Ghost Bird knew that something would survive, that she would survive.

We were descending into an organism.

What was a person but someone who turned monstrous, anyway?

I have come to have a great affection for monsters...

My voice had a rasp to it, then. I wasn't yet comfortable talking human. My voice had a rasp, and I gazed upon the bison head on the wall and my voice became raspier still. I gazed upon the mossy rock imported from another country, the water feature in the house, and wanted only to return to all fours and drink from the pond. To gaze at the reflection and remember who I was, not who I had become

Whatever we think of the border, it's important to recognise it as a limitation of Area X.

How many invisible, abstract incantations ruled the world beyond the Southern Reach?

Perhaps because trees did not resist. Trees fell over on their own accord, sometimes, as if to prove their love for the ax. The chainsaw that felled most of them just completed a trees own inevitable thought.

The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.