Quotes About Nature

All those "why" questions are rooted in culture, which is to say, in ethical beliefs. I emphasize the point not to denigrate the achievements of scientists, but only to remind that natural science cannot by itself fathom the sources of the crisis it has identified, for the sources lie not in the nature that scientists study but in the human nature and, especially, in the human culture that historians and other humanists have made their study.

We can no more get out of a relationship with nature than we can get out of history.

Too often science seems oblivious to the fact that human beings have been interacting with nature over a long period of time ... and that what we mean by nature is, to some extent, a product of that history.

Giving all due respect to the present generation of scientists who have worked hard to give us the most reliable account of nature they can, historians nonetheless find the scientific ideas of other eras intrinsically interesting, often as interesting as those of our own day, and for all we know, they are valid in their own way.

So we are making a pathway across the levee that separates nature from culture, science from history, matter from mind.

and harvesting

I like perfume and flowers.

The Earth was formed whole and continuous in the Universe, without lines.

You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Costuming is an art," Betty added. "And we believe that catering to the darker nature of mankind is unwise. We concentrate on beauty.

Nature is evil. Nature is conflict, violence, betrayal; worms that crawl through the skin and breen in the gut; thorns that poison; snakes that fight in writhing, heaving masses until all lie dead from another's poison. From nature we learned to tear the flesh off the bone and suck out the blook - and to enjoy it. Do you want to return to that state? I do not.

I have known Nature. I have known Civilization. Civilization is better.

The yamas and niyamas are emphatic descriptions of what we are when we are connected to our source. Rather than a list of dos and don'ts, they tell us that our fundamental nature is compassionate, generous, honest, and peaceful.2

The fall air pokes Konrad like the needles of evergreens. He feels snappish and half wild.

It was many years before I could call myself an activist – someone who resists the wishes of the powerful, someone who stands up on behalf of those who cannot speak: the trees and water and fish and caribou. But now I understand that this struggle is emerging all over the planet. And it is the most important battle we have ever fought.

The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until at last the walls give way and the rose bursts forth, spreading its petals into the light. I love him.

Thunder sounded, very near, and the child woke.

Joan breathed deeply, filling her lungs with the sweet smells of early spring. Her spirit soared like a falcon loosed from its fetters, delivered suddenly to the miraculous freedom of wind in sky.

Weather meaning 'weather' and man meaning 'man.

So the fairies are wonderfully helpful for anything involving animals. They'll even help you find lost pets or locate a new one for adoption.

Fairies are animals' guardian angels.

Gaten looked closely at me. He brushed dirt from my face, then with make-believe surprise said, "Oh, it is you, Clover." He grabbed my hand. His strong hand held it tightly. It was a father's hold. I was safe with him. In the evening twilight we walked hand in hand in search of the very-hard-to-find rain crow.

If trees could speak they wouldn't

Possible, unthinkable, the cricket's tiny back as I lie on the lawn in the dark, my heart a blue cup fallen from someone's hands.