Nature Quotes - Page 42

An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.

Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

My profession is to always find God in nature.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

The wonders of nature are endless.