By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along...

Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.

I chanced on a wonderful book by Marius von Senden, called Space and Sight. . . . For the newly sighted, vision is pure sensation unencumbered by meaning: “The girl went through the experience that...

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

rights of the unborn” as though a human life begins at conception but we don’t need to concern ourselves with its prospects after birth. Raging over the divine sanctity of anyone else’s pregnancy is a...

We fail so easily to see the difference between fear of the unknown and respect for the unknown, thinking that those who do not hasten in with bright lights and knives are deterred by a...

Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.

Dolphins and sharks are natural enemies. Dolphins are like, “Quit eating us,” and sharks are like, “Stop smiling all the time, you morons.

Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the...

When we first believe we think we can do it all; our passion is so strong. But after a time we start to learn that passion doesn’t equal strength, and our sinful nature rears its...

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.

If we were both standing beside Niagara Falls, the only thing you’d be able to hear is the sound of me urinating in a pitcher of lemonade. Gorgeous scenery is great and all, but I’ve...

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

The Beauty of Nature is, this is for me & I am for it.

Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward experience, then make decisions based on creating biological wealth that...

One had to live a long time to know a man’s true nature.

Because the birdsong might be pretty,But it’s not for you they sing,And if you think my winter is too cold,You don’t deserve my spring.

Standing DeerAs the house of a personin age sometimes grows clutteredwith what istoo loved or too heavy to part with,the heart may grow cluttered.And still the house will be emptied,and still the heart.As the thoughts...

A law of nature is not a formula drawn up by a legislator, but a mere summary of the observed facts — a ‘bundle of facts.’ Things do not act in a particular way because...

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to...

It was great to see the owls,” I said.She smiled.”Yes. They’re wild things, of course. Killers, savages. They’re wonderful.

Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of...

I’d rather be encouraged by an ant to live than taught to doubt by fifty skeptics.

If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirmed, then nucleic acids must be regarded as possessing biological specificity the chemical basis of which is as yet...

Hill tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun, And the rivers we’re eying burn to gold as they run; Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees...

For we may remark generally of our mathematical researches, that these auxiliary quantities, these long and difficult calculations into which we are often drawn, are almost always proofs that we have not in the beginning...

There’s only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.

There is one secret place…it is beautiful and peaceful, where gentle water flows, and most beautiful garden grows, yet, nobody could ever go to…You reach deep within my soul drawing out all the dreams that...

All about us the earth steamed; mists rose up toward heaven like clouds of incense; a shattered rainbow still hovered in the air.

… even in his most artificial creations, nature is the material upon which man has to work; certain spots will persist in remaining surrounded by the vassals of their own special sovereignty, and will raise...

We’re set for Monday. (The nature of the announcement) is going to be the new team name.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work.

One late-autumn day I opened the back door to fetch some water, and there was a young hare sat on my back step. Save for the twitching of its nose, it froze in position as...

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be taken…a matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don’t even notice.