I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

And he feels hurt when he hears about wars,And commerce, and the ships leavingTheir smoke on the high seas.Because he knows all of this lacks the truthA flower has in its bloomingAnd which moves with...

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. That lands yields a cultural harvest is a fact long...

The mind-stuff of the world is, of course, something more general than our individual conscious minds…. It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental...

The ribboned gallons that rule us like beliefs rooted in single experiences.

Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn’t come through. It was...

No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn’t feel like some accident of nature but rather something that was purposefully unleashed on the world.

In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. If creation had been left up to me, I’m sure I wouldn’t have had the imagination or courage to...

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

One can fully own a manufactured thing—a toaster, say, or a pair of shoes. But in what reasonable sense can one fully “own” and have “rights” to do whatever we want to land, water, air,...

There’s an old adage,” he said, “translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages — “Life is life and fun is fun, but it’s all so quiet when the goldfish...

Trees’re always a relief, after people.

Love doesn’t seem to follow a plan; it’s not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature – an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild, relentless energy that is...

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any...

I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren’t important at all except for the...

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky.

The feeling, for those seconds, is glorious—it reminds him that he is human, that he is so insignificant as to be utterly free, and he is being guided along gracefully, lovingly, by the hand of...

Nature is gendered, but not sexist.

The velocity of light is one of the most important of the fundamental constants of Nature. Its measurement by Foucault and Fizeau gave as the result a speed greater in air than in water, thus...

There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.

I think of what wild animals are in our imaginations. And how they are disappearing — not just from the wild, but from people’s everyday lives, replaced by images of themselves in print and on...

By nature men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it.

No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a better identity and have a mature positively rewarding life.

If you are in doubt about what’s balanced, look to the natural world. Animals know the right paths.

Our thinking part is really the area (that needs work). The simplistic nature that we need to dictate and play with was lacking. I thought we looked frustrated and we ran ourselves out of position...

I may enter a zone of transcendence, in which I marvel at all the accidents of fate, since the beginning of life on earth, that led to my genes being created and my standing in...

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of...

Nature does not ask your permission, she has nothing to do with your wishes, and whether you like her laws or dislike them, you are bound to accept her as she is, and consequently all...

La nature est une oeuvre d’art, mais Dieu est le seul artiste qui existe, et l’homme n’est qu’un arrangeur de mauvais goût. La nature est belle, le sentiment s’exhale de tous ses pores; l’amour, la...

The Nature cannot Speak with words but will show us In the Future what we do Wrong now.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

If you nurture Life, Life will nurture you.

[T]hey are much to be pitied who have not … been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.

I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

The history of man proves that religion perverts man’s concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward before the blind forces of nature.If you believe that there is a God;...

Black magic, the magic of the primeval chaos, blots out or transmogrifies the true form of things. At the stroke of twelve the princess must flee the banquet or risk discovery in the rags of...

…an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the first of...

The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to the discovery that things...

And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are those lives, threading the air and waters of the sea, that come out of an...

We loved our homeland for thousands of years which cost us climate change and environmental degradation because we were too selfish to care about the nature, now it is time that we must love our...

How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!”Grover shrugged. “It’s nature,” he said. “Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse.

Many a petal has yet to fall before the last one falls.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

People didn’t love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what’s best for it. You don’t destroy it.

Miranda,’ she called again. ‘Miranda!’ In the breathless silence her voice seemed to belong to somebody else, a long way off, a harsh little croak fading out amongst the rocky walls. ‘Come back, all of...

In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.

If anything in Kafka’s theology can be called Jewish, it is his virtual lack of any concept of ‘Nature’. There is in a sense no ‘Nature’ in Genesis either, since the world is created for...

Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

Life is a river,” a wise friend told me. “It’s flowing. You’re never at the same place twice.