Quotes About Nature

Where the remote Bermudas ride,In th' ocean's bosom unespied.

To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.

For Juliana comes, and she, what I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me.

My vegetable love will grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.

What wondrous life in this I lead Ripe apples drop about my head

Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

It's one thing to kill someone and not leave evidence or hide the body so it's never found, but to be able to murder someone and have everyone think it was an accident of nature? That's some kind of genius.

Sharks have millions of years of preprogrammed strategies. Dolphins have cheat codes.

Pelicans are simply an ungrateful mouth on wings.

Nature controls us more than we want to admit.

The difference between a wolf and a sheep is that a sheep will stand by and watch a wolf devour its own lambs. If you threaten a wolf's pup, it'll rip your throat out. Wolves are foul, vicious creatures. But it's better to be a wolf pup than a dead lamb. Now good night.

That the human body or any other animal is a system comprised of millions of smaller systems, some of them completely separate from us genetically, shouldn't be an earthshaking revelation.

Put a wildlife camera in your campsite overnight and you'll be surprised and possibly frightened by the amount of nature that comes strolling and slithering through.

Other animals, mainly nonmammals, are indifferent. If a predator snatches a child, their evolutionary calculus tells them they're lucky it wasn't them and life goes on.

a hurricane.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws could be sustained under the existing legal framework if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger society. Civilized Sciences Foundation, CSF Congressional Report 1975

That's what goes into park design. They're not meant to recreate nature, but to soothe us. A small body of water in a wide-open space with a few clusters of trees to hide in if there's a large predator. This is what we looked for when we left the jungle for the savanna. It's what medieval landscape painters tried to represent and how manors and country estates were designed for hundreds of years.

behind a forest on the edge of an unincorporated township. His closest neighbors include a dog breeder, a horse farm,

Gentleness isn't always a virtue." He leaned on the counter, staring out the window into the dark. "The difference between a wolf and a sheep is that a sheep will stand by and watch a wolf devour its own lambs. If you threaten a wolf's pup, it'll rip your throat out. Wolves are foul, vicious creatures. But it's better to be a wolf pup than a dead lamb. Now good night.

spend its life cycle buried in dirt.

The woods were wrong.

Deep down we're all animals.

I'd point out that by that logic, every living thing that manages to be born is a miracle—and if we're all miracles, then nobody is, because the word has lost its meaning. Life works or it doesn't.