Quotes About Nature

When God called Israel out of Egypt, he affirmed they were sacred human beings made in his image. He then showed them how to live according to their God-given nature. In effect, God said, "It may feel awkward at first, but as a fish is created to live in water, I created you to live according to this design.

TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

The Devil isn't made by what Mommy says, or what Daddy says. The Devil is there.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

We think of lions and wolves as savage because they kill; but they must kill, or starve. Humans kill other animals for sport, to satisfy their curiosity, to beautify their bodies, and to please their palates.

Netfali's breath caught in his throat at the sight of the infinite colors and the gentle curve of the faraway horizon. He had never imagined the height of the white spray breaking against the rocks, the dark sand, or the air that whispered of fish and salt. He stood, captivated, feeling small and insignificant, and at the same time as if he belonged to something much grander.

Alors que ce mauvais siècle approche de sa fin, le pressentiment se répand que l'idée de faire histoire n'était qu'un prétexte. Le sujet décisif de la modernité, c'est de faire nature.

The human being does not hop out of the magician's hat in the way that the ape climbs down from the tree; he also does not emerge from the hand of a creator who surveys everything in advance with his foreknowledge. He is the product of a production that is not itself a human being. The human being was not yet what he would become before he became it.

El hecho de que la política esté cambiando cada vez más hacia la gestión de la fatalidad es propio de la naturaleza de los procesos multifactoriales. El juego con el azar se está volviendo, a su vez, cada vez más aleatorio.

In a world that belongs to God, human beings make too much of themselves as soon as they raise their heads>; in a world that belongs to humans, they repeatedly make too little of themselves.

Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.

If it's reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.

A little wolf is present in every one of us.

Es wurde Herbst und Winter. Es wurde Sommer. Es wurde dunkel, und es wurde hell.

Man darf nichts erwarten, nur so hält man durch. Geduld reicht nicht, weil nichts geschieht. Im Wald gibt es keine Zukunft und keine Vergangenheit, alles findet im Moment statt oder über Zeiträume, die nicht in Jahren gemessen werden können.

Man nahm den Wald nur wahr, wenn man sich in ihm befand.

lus mór na coille.

Chance – invisible, furtive, and silent – is the vast canvas upon which all the rest of war is painted. Skill, courage, ruse, character, the elements of nature, technology and all the other components of war all operate against the backdrop of chance. Again and again, chance has raised up and brought down empires, snatched laurels from one hand to throw to another, and destroyed the most finely wrought plans.

Fishermen's pirogues and expedition tents at Lokobe Reserve

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

four Fs" of evolutionary survival: Fleeing, Fighting, Feeding and Fucking. If any one of these instincts malfunctions in a species, the species will eventually become extinct.

It can be argued that the current rise of serial killers can be perhaps attributed to a new evolutionary prerogative for the demise of our species; Mother Nature's little way of saying, in among several other ways, that there might be too many humans on the planet.)

Whether there are any links between the nature of the serial murders and the collapse of the two regimes is an open question at this time.