Nature Quotes - Page 65

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.

Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems like molecules within larger systems like cells, which in turn are nested in systems called organs, organisms, ecosystems. We grew from ancient one-celled ancestors. Nature likes mergers: we contain multitudes of other life forms within us. We stand at the crest of four billion years, bacteria molded into wondrous form, burning with a slow fire and about to take the next step.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that in order to so exist, organisms must relate to each other and to the earth itself.

Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.

A man is related to all nature.

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other, there must be a single energy operating in the world. And the first idea that occurs to us is that the 'soul' must be as it were the focal point of transformation at which, from all the points of nature, the forces of bodies converge, to become interiorised and sublimated in beauty and truth.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.