Quotes about nature
nature ecosystems giving
If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can give is: possibly. By the time we find out, however, it might be too late. One planet, one experiment. E. O. Wilson
nature meals burning
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
nature mean humanity
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
nature animal ecosystems
Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay.
nature clouds rolling
A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder. Dylan Thomas
nature eye blood
When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.
nature land pieces
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause. Douglas Adams
nature thinking drug
And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.
nature want constant
We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing. Don Young
nature children eye
Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray! Dale Carnegie
nature eye poetry
Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened. e. e. cummings
nature miracle trying
"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian. E. B. White
nature time fall
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
nature earth-day understanding
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. David Attenborough
nature responsibility passion
Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it.
nature air water
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.
nature children spring
We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace. David Sobel
nature sneakers clothes
Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.
nature childhood world
Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.
nature heart childhood
The heart of childhood, from seven to eleven, is the critical period for bonding with the earth.
nature children earth
If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.
nature keys hieroglyphics
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. David Hare
nature pedants culture
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. Confucius
nature children age-difference
In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones. Delia Ephron
nature names skulls
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it. Debbie Harry
nature men animal
God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men. Anna Sewell
nature eye rose
The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity. Angelus Silesius
nature soul half
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. Alfred Lord Tennyson
nature men doubt
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own. Alfred de Vigny
nature law purpose
Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work. Alfred Austin
nature silly intelligent
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual. Anthony Burgess
nature literature trembling
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. Andre Gide
nature return elements
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.