Nature Quotes - Page 44

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Although believers by nature are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!

Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Ive seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, theres nothing closer to God than that.

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.

A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.

We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.

One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.