Quotes About Nature

The brain is natural. Its food is natural. The result, thought, must be natural. The supernatural can be constructed with no material except the natural.

Those who did not know the ocean well forgot its solidity, its brutality.

No self-respecting blowfly wants to lay eggs in acid.

You think he had it in him to kill her, do you?" "Of course I do," said Somé dismissively. "Of course he has. All of us have got it in us, somewhere, to kill.

Then came the Autumne all in yellow clad…

Why were you born when the snow was falling?

Izzy had displayed the persistent adhesiveness of a teasel.

there was no romantic whisper of quiet woods or secret garden about them . . .

Why were you born when the snow was falling? You should have come to the cuckoo's calling, Or when grapes are green in the cluster, Or, at least, when lithe swallows muster For their far off flying From summer dying. Why did you die when the lambs were cropping? You should have died at the apples' dropping, When the grasshopper comes to trouble, And the wheat-fields are sodden stubble, And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.

Sweet is the swamp with its secrets, Until we meet a snake… Emily Dickinson XIX: A Snake

For a minute he looked out upon the ghostly park and was transfixed by the effect of the rising sun on leafy branches rising from the sea of vapor. You could find beauty nearly anywhere if you stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the days made it easy to forget that this totally cost-free luxury existed.

silkworm?" "Yeah, and you know what? I always thought they were like spiders spinning their webs, but you know how they get silk from the worms?" "Can't say I do." "They boil them," said Robin. "Boil them alive, so that they don't damage their cocoons by bursting out of them. It's the cocoons that are made of silk. Not very nice, really, is it?

Wolf is the Grand Teacher. Wolf is the sage, who after many winters upon the sacred path and seeking the ways of wisdom, returns to share new knowledge with the tribe. Wolf is both the radical and the traditional in the same breath. When the Wolf walks by you - you will remember.

There are very few particles, if any, which are entirely real. They almost all have some virtual aspects, though some are more virtual than others.

She was just a simple, honest woman standing in the ruin of a late winter garden, waiting for the spring. "Catherine.

She ran to the window to catch every sunset, each one a miracle, different every day, entrancing long after darkness had sucked the last ounce of color out of the indigo sky.

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Under the government of Nature, what you call punishments and rewards are simply consequences. Nature does not punish. Nature does not reward. Nature has no purpose.

like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.

For time, which can extend and magnify you, cannot liberate you from the confines of your skin or alter nature from its enduring shape.

Bacon says that to conquer nature, we must first obey it; but man, who has humbled himself toward space and matter, is still proud toward time.