Nature Quotes - Page 39

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; that tender organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp, - tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has rained flesh and blood! With the liability to accident, we must see how little account is to be made of it.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get.

Nature is the mirror of divinity.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.

Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.