Quotes About Nature

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

Drifting, drifting,/ what am I more than/ a single gull/ between sky and earth?

Two yellow orioles sing under emerald willows One line of White Egrets ascends clear skies Window frames Western riged snow of a thousand autumns Door moors Eastern Wu a boat of ten-thousand li

On war-torn land streams flow and mountains stand

White gull in the vastness of the waves—ten thousand miles away, who can tame him?

...The thick froth... Lustrous like freshly fallen snow, And resplendent like the spring's blossom.

[T]ea... wealth of the Earth, Blessed with the sweet spirit of Heaven.

And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.

A hundred things may be explained, a thousand told, But one thing only should you grasp. Know one thing and everything is freed – Remain within your inner nature, your awareness!

You can't train a fox not to kill hens; you can't stop Algerines killing everyone who won't bow before Allah.

Biology doesn't really have universal laws either, and yet biologists still manage to make progress.

Libertarian arguments about what would or would not be fair in a state of nature are simply irrelevant, because in a state of nature nobody would be getting a $10-million bonus.

The Halo Effect, in other words, turns conventional wisdom about performance on its head. Rather than the evaluation of the outcome being determined by the quality of the process that led to it, it is the observed nature of the outcome that determines how we evaluate the process.6

Trees don't ask why they don't move from place to place, nor do they ask any other meaningless questions. But their branches tremble when the birds leave them,

All of us are autumn leaves, ready to fall at any time.

But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

I'm part ocean, part mountain. Maybe that's why I love California.

This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

Life and death are one thread.

Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.