Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

Energy is the universal language of Nature; Nature is the universal source of information.

The making of gardens and parks goes on with civilization all over the world, and they increase both in size and number as their value is recognized. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places...

Nature can be cruel. Predators are everywhere. Those who don’t need to be protected from outside forces often need to be protected from themselves. In society, women are referred to as “the fairer sex”. But...

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

A person who can hide his tears but can never hide his smile is a Joker.

The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one...

Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest?

Going to the woods is going home.

Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from...

Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always lovely. I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day...

With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before.

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

The language of nature is silence.

Nothing is invented, for it’s written in nature first.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts – a sense of wonder.

I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

Chloroplasts bear chlorophyll; they give the green world its color, and they carry out the business of photosynthesis. Around the inside perimeter of each gigantic cell trailed a continuous loop of these bright green dots....

What is 34 in Reality, anyway?

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

He gets away with it because he’s strong.”This is the story of mankind.”I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.”Yes. But then I read the newspaper.

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It’s not the popular ideal, it is the wizard’s love – the force that upholds life...

Man’s collective mastery of nature— even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion— can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well- being when it...

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.

The human soul is complex. So is Nature (or life, if you prefer). Creating a perfect interface between the two results in a balance that one can recognize in an individual as a state of...

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born the greatest and noblest of the Western World; an immense personality, — unique,...

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

If you are a kind person and love animals, you may be lucky enough to find the Magic Valley. There you will discover a land where snow leopards play and mountains smile. I should tell...

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Some people think nature is their God. I’d like to apologize to all those people for pissing on their religion.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

We’ll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.

When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here – the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver, the turkey and so forth and so forth, I cannot but...

As the leaf takes its time finding the ground so must I.

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.

Blessed are the peacemakers.