Nature Quotes - Page 130

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding other species off the planet. Why create another mouth to gnaw at the overburdened earth?

It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.

When you breast feed your child, that breast milk that nature starts us out on has almost the same percentage of polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated fat as butter. So nature clearly wanted us to have a high fat diet.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.

The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).

Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.

When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

The clouds roll on. Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds keep coming from infinity bank behind bank and line after line, and change colors on the earth.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow.

There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

There is another possibility: not the end of nature, but the rebirth of wonder and even joy.