Quotes About Nature

Unlike other commodities, however, fast food isn't viewed, read, played, or worn. It enters the body and becomes part of the consumer. No other industry offers, both literally and figuratively, so much insight into the nature of mass consumption.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.

November and the sun grows sparse in the sky.

The sticky buds of the weeping cherry

Kate Atwood tended to the orchids in her greenhouse. She whispered to them in a soothing, absentminded way. She supposed if she were a cat person, she'd chat with her cats – but she was a plant person.

Urmându-Å£i aÅŸadar sfatul, m-am str?duit s?-l pun în aplicare. Contemplând lumina, culorile, copacii, p?s?rile, animalele. SimÅ£eam cum aerul îmi p?trunde în n?ri f?cându-m? s? respir. Vocile de pe culoar veneau spre mine ca din bolta unei catedrale. Iar eu eram viu. Frem?tam de o bucurie necuprins? ÅŸi pur?. Aceea de a exista. O bucurie care m? fermeca.

E vinovat de adulter? Atunci e vinovat si de casatorie. Cum se poate merge in fata unui primar sau a unui preot pentru a primi garantia ca niciodata un barbat nu se va atinge de alta femeie decat de nevasta lui? Ce om in toate mintile va sustine asa ceva altfel decat constrans? Oprobiul meu se indreapta impotriva casatoriilor si juramintelor de castitate, nu impotriva adulterului, care mi se pare o desteptare sanatoasa a naturii.

De fapt, p?mântul nu duce lips? de minun??ii, ci de oameni care s? se minuneze.

Ne pense plus avec ta conscience personnelle, pense avec une autre conscience, celle du monde, pense tel l'arbre qui bourgeonne, telle la pluie qui tombe.

Pourquoi la nature aurait-elle accouché d'un poisson si elle n'avait pas inventé l'eau..

Od urodzenia zauwa?aÅ'a rzeczy, na które nikt inny nie zwracaÅ' uwagi: w chmurach dostrzegaÅ'a twarze, poÅ›ród pary, która po deszczu okrywa mgÅ'Ä… leÅ›ne poszycie, podziwiaÅ'a taÅ"czÄ…ce duchy. Kiedy przyglÄ…daÅ'a siÄ™ bryÅ'om ziemi, odkrywaÅ'a w nich ksztaÅ'ty, które nam umykaÅ'y, widziaÅ'a na przykÅ'ad konia i odsÅ'aniaÅ'a go, babrzÄ…c siÄ™ w glinie, szlifujÄ…c i wygÅ'adzajÄ…c.

She was drawn to nature more than to her fiancé. She suspected that happiness was hiding out of doors, behind a tree, like a rabbit; she could see the tip of its nose, she could sense its presence, its invitation, its impatience .

vautré sur une chaise de métal, j'espionnai le jeu des garçonnets, lesquels se lançaient leurs voiliers miniatures d'un bord à l'autre du bassin circulaire, puis, malgré moi, j'observai le vent dans la ramée, l'oscillation des arbustes, j'envoyai deux ou trois cailloux pour dessiner des ronds sur l'eau et je me penchais vers les fleurs lorsque la paix m'inonda… J'avais compris.

A?a zicea Fontenelle: un trandafir n-a v?zut niciodat? un gr?dinar murind.

The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for controlling nature.

Society must be organized in such a way that man's social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it. If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature.

The common suffering is the alienation from oneself, from one's fellow man, and from nature; the awareness that life runs out of one's hand like sand, and that one will die without having lived; that one lives in the midst of plenty and yet is joyless.

To transcend nature, to be alienated from nature and from another human being, finds man naked, ashamed. He is alone and free, yet powerless and afraid.

In the view of the wise, Heaven is man and Earth woman: Earth fosters what Heaven lets fall.

If humanity continues to consume natural resources irresponsibly and disrupt the balance of nature that provides human life, it will be inevitable that we will encounter the catastrophe of total extinction in less than a hundred years.

Ma la donna non è un uomo evirato, e la sua sessualità è tipicamente femminile e non di natura maschile.

The more man gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an 'individual,' he has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world that destroys his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.

The first bud of spring sings the other seeds into joining her uprising.