Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them for our attention; things expose themselves to the sun or...

It is a blessed gift to witness the beauty of each day.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God’s sufficient Word.

They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.

Because she was looking down and focusing her attention so precisely, Alice lost track of time and of herself. She wouldn’t be able to put it into words, except to say she felt removed from...

Under a red desert sky all thought seems superfluous.

Maybe we can just park and check out the fields,” said Ethan. “It doesn’t look like anyone’s around.”I was sad to leave the playlist behind–I was worried the car was my snow globe and it...

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Future generations will look back at the time we are living in now. The kind of future they look from, and the story they tell about our period, will be shaped by choices we make...

Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of...

Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn’t he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to nature, but he also created that mirror: so the image he created is...

I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets around stars makes electrons dance in your heart. It is in you, outside you, you are...

There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.

It’s time that activates the fundamental forces of nature.

We were bred of earth before we were bred of our mothers. Once born, we can live without mother or father, or any other kin, or any friend, or any human love. We cannot live...

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to...

The air, soil and water cumulatively degrade; the climates and oceans destabilize; species become extinct at a spasm rate across continents; pollution cycles and volumes increase to endanger life-systems at all levels in cascade effects;...

With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save...

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere...

Looking for a queen or a king to respect, then I suggest you nature which is a real queen, a real king: Generous, creative, almighty and just!

…the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows…

The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to conceal the fact that the operations of capital do not depend on any...

The greatest storms on our Earth break not in nature but in our minds!

AWB was prepared to deceive the U.N. as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain Board.

It can even be thought that radium could become very dangerous in criminal hands, and here the question can be raised whether mankind benefits from knowing the secrets of Nature, whether it is ready to...

The heart is natures most immense untapped resource. Utilising the power of the heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.

Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn’t. It’s programmed to chew up...

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

At the base of the immense pillar, tiny Babylon was in shadow. Then the darkness climbed the tower, like a canopy unfurling upward. It moved slowly enough that Hillalum felt he could count the moments...

If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive.

Not by human dwellings–not in crowded cities alone, are the sights and sounds of life. The wildest places of the earth are full of them.

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a...

English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don’t have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are ‘who,’ not ‘what.

out there” in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.

[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the ‘school’ to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of...

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

I have found that if I tend to a person’s illness rather than to theperson, I am going to treat that person as if they are their illness. In doing so, I run the risk...

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.

This tree, though, had not been fed on, so it was apparent that the culprit was a bull (elephant) who was filled with testosterone but no outlet for it, so he pushed over trees. It’s...

The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as...

Man needs to do some growing up. This need is manifested, among other ways, by the emotional unreason he tends to show toward the behavior of wild creatures. The immoderations and inconsistencies in his attitude...

Emotion has its place, but it must not interfere with taking the appropriate action.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.

Nature is the best Time-keeper.

Da una parte il cielo era tutto schiarito, e vi brillavano certe stellucce umide, sperdute nella sua grandezza, come in una sconfinata parete di metallo, da dove, sulla terra, venisse a cadere qualche misero soffio...

A cat is a soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

Calligraphy of geeseagainst the sky-the moon seals it.