Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
Nature Quotes
The concept of “nature” is itself, so to speak, artificial. Are Ring-Dings elf food? Is Wal-Mart part of the spirit world? For people who live in what we would call “the state of nature” – for Yaguas, Orejons, riberenos, me when I’m fishing in Michigan – nature is nothing in particular. It’s meat locker, wastepaper […]
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
It is a profound truth that nature does not know best; that genetical evolution is a tale of waste, makeshift, compromise, and blunder.
There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation “alter” nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, […]
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
Why is nature so nearly symmetrical? No one has any idea why. The only thing we might suggest is something like this: There is a gate in Japan, a gate in Neiko, which is sometimes called by the Japanese the most beautiful gate in all Japan; it was built in a time when there was […]
With all his boasted simplicity and love of the country, he seldom launches out into general descriptions of nature: he looks at her over his clipped hedges, and from his well-swept garden-walks; or if he makes a bolder experiment now and then, it is with an air of precaution, as if he were afraid of […]
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.
I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains… my advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture the happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you and be happy.
