Nature is the art of time.

Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.

On this voyage, I couldn’t help but think we need need. We need to be forced to go outside. We need to be forced to depend on one another. we need to be forced to...

The only way to see the path in the wind is to become the wind itself.

I believe that even ‘returning-to-nature’ and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present...

A tree never feels how much fragrance it spreads. It’s just its nature to be like that.

If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from...

[My father] had a name for the bottom of the sky–‘the hem of heaven.

We feel very happy in nature but we must be very sure that nature also feels very happy when we are there! Happiness must be mutual! Treat nature well!

A gate to nature is a gate to heaven!

Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks, the ringing monuments of rock that, freed from the talons of ice and...

If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. … during the week.

pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.

It wouldn’t be much fun living on a planet where grass could not grow.

Una franja en la que se mezclaban el naranja y el amarillo prendía fuego al cielo,espléndida e inesperada, tan espectacular como los fuegos artificiales, aunquecambiaba a un ritmo majestuoso y apenas perceptible. Tally estaba descubriendo...

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.