Nature Quotes - Page 5

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

As fragrance abides in the flower As reflection is within the mirror, So does your Lord abide within you, Why search for him without?

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart

Let Nature be your teacher

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.