Magic is a funny term,’ she’d say. ‘There is nothing supernatural about the earth. As long as you know what does what.

They were relaxing at the top of a waterfall, in a small, still pool where the mountain waters hit an upward slope of folded granite. It was sort of a rounded bathtub, carved out of...

Tak jak przed telewizorem umiera wiara w drugiego człowieka, tak w podróży ta wiara powraca. Podróżowanie zwraca nam życie. Zabiera nas do istoty rzeczy, zabiera nas w przeszłość, do czasów, gdy to nie współzawodnictwo rządziło...

…a hazy yellow moon was climbing along the curve of the old basilica on the hill. As it rose, it seemed to be gathering the silence up around it like a net.

People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth’s life support system, it shapes climate and weather. It holds most of life on earth. 97% of earth’s...

If you see those pretty thingsthat nature likes to showRemember all those seals that singAnd leave them there to grow.

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man...

You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you. – Pan

The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like...

A journey through nature is always a road that leads to self-discovery.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Soughing” we call it, fromOld English, no less. How weightlesswords are when nothing will do.

she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.

Redemption is good. All of us by nature have tremendous pride in what we do. We not only have Ted and Sam wanting to prove themselves, we have some other guys who want to prove...

Isn’t it amazing how we always have to put our mark on things? And how, from the natural world, we find evidence over and over again that reminds us, not so much of the birds,...

If getting our kids out into nature is a search for perfection, or is one more chore, then the belief in perfection and the chore defeats the joy. It’s a good thing to learn more...

I’d like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth’s the right...

A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we...

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious,...

Pel motiu que a Tità res no presentava una finalitat (en cap moment i per a ningú), i pel motiu que no actuava cap guillotina de l’evolució, amputant de cada genotip el que no contribuïa...

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

…we do not own these woods. They own us.

Again burst out that chant McKay had heard as he had floated through the mists upon the lake. Now, as then, despite his opened ears, he could distinguish no words, but clearly he understood its...

The shadows of twilight grow,And the tiger’s ancient fiercenessIn my veins begins to flow.

Among the books there were also some containing bombast. They didn’t try to portray Nature as it is within and outside of man; rather, they tried to make it more beautiful, seeking to elicit certain...

The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread out. For nothing is ever added to it or subtracted from it. It follows that...

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

It shows clearly the nature of the enemy we’re dealing with.

Any self-realized being has access to the dynamic genius which nature gives all beings.

How can you measure progress if you don’t know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the “market” put a price on things – food, clothes, electricity, running water – when...

Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and...

An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladdens the hearts of most . . . No, in the plant world, and especially among...

Why?” asked my master Caeiro.

You never know who you’re inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.

Humans are not separate from God, rather, humans are part of the complex system/force we call God. Not acknowledging we are fragments of the complex God is where some religions are dividing you and I,...

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably...

Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.

You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Nature … has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of the universe, in our present state; and it is highly possible that he has...

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

I don’t believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won’t persuade mother nature to alter her ways....

It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.

But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each other, fell on her ear, her eyes sought the sky, and she heard a voice saying, “Majella!

A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet.

My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.

All the love of the high, wild places, all the amazing joy in being alive sounded in his voice

Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and...