Nature Quotes - Page 29

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you.

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

Take a couple of days by yourself and rent a nice cabin in some nice, happy place. Stay a day or two and meditate and take walks in areas that feel good to you. Find out who you are again. Remember.

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.

This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen, and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it - a vast pulsing harmony - its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

The earth is what we all have in common.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.

Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit--some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.