Nature Quotes - Page 7

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road - the one less traveled by - offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions.

In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

There is no revolution that can change the nature of man

What you are will show in what you do.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance

You are a guest of nature - behave.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to her shifts, to make many doublings and turnings, and to use some kind of art in endeavouring to avoid our discovery.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.