Nature Quotes #6

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.
—Aldous Huxley

Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain. —Margaret Mead

There is however, a true music of Nature—the song of the birds, the whisper of leaves, the ripple of waters upon a sandy shore, the wail of wind or sea. —Lubbock

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.
—Henry Miller

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it's raining, but the feel of being rained upon. —E.L. Doctorow

Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and its wild inhabitants...have often been stay-at-home naturalists...concentrating their attention and affection on a relatively small area.
—Edwin Way Teale

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. —William Wordsworth
The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world.
— Anonymous

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. — Albert Einstein

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
— E E Cummings

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. — Errol Flynn

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. — Jackie Mason

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
— George Bernard Shaw

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

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more.
— John Burroughs

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
— George Washington Carver

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. — Jimmy Carter

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. — Kahlil Gibran

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them — Milne, Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh

In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks. —John Muir

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.
— William Rotsler

educed, until we have only one: to fight for survival.
— Morris K. Udall

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder. — Unknown

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. —Winston Churchill

I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. —Steven Wright

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. —Charles Lamb

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world. —Dan Quayle

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
—Will Rogers

In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air. —Jonathan Raban

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. —Pablo Picasso

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. —Woody Allen

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. —Steven Wright

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
—Steven Wright

A fool and his money are soon elected.
—Will Rogers

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
—George Bush

I have orders to be awakened at any time in the case of a national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. —Ronald Reagan

What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on? —Henry David Thoreau

The variety of life in nature can be compared to a vast library of unread books, and the plundering of nature is comparable to the random discarding of whole volumes without having opened them, and learned from them. Our critical dependence on the great variety of nature for the progress we have already made has been amply documented. Indifference to the loss of species is, in effect, indifference to the future, and therefore a shameful carelessness about our children. —Peter Matthiessen

We consider species to be like a brick in the foundation of a building. You can probably lose one or two or a dozen bricks and still have a standing house. But by the time you've lost 20 per cent of species, you're going to destabilize the entire structure. That's the way ecosystems work.
—Donald Falk

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal. —Thomas Jefferson

To save every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. —Aldo Leopold

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. —Thomas E. Lovejoy

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. —Robert Lynd

Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied up with the welfare of wildlife. Well may conservationists proclaim that by saving the lives of wild species, we may be saving our own. —Norman Myers

The value of biodiversity is more than the sum of its parts. —Byran G. Norton

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. —Philip Shabecoff

What is the nature of a species that knowingly and without good reason exterminates another?
—George Small

Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back. —Gwyn Thomas

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed. —Wallace Stegner

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. —Sir John Lubbock

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water-skis or a snorkel. —Bill Vaughan

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
—Tennessee Williams