Nature Quotes - Page 11

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Young leaves The sound of a waterfall Heard from far and near.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.

To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.