The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity . . . and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. —William Blake
I don’t read no papers and I don’t listen to the radio either. I know the world’s been shaved by a drunken barber and I don’t need to read about it. —Walter Brennan
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. —Wendell Berry
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. —Marshall McLuhan
Wisdom begins in wonder. —Socrates
The Law locks up the hapless felon who steals the goose from off the common, but lets the greater felon loose who steals the common from the goose.
Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die. —Gil Stern
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way animals are treated. —Mahatma Gandhi
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay some forms of life arise. —Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
—Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. —Emerson (1803-1882)
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. —Voltaire (1694-1778)
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 (1834-1913)
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. —Pope (1688-1744)
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in our nature. —Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. —Alexander Smith
Man is the only asynchronous, heuristically-programmed computer which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
The man who invented the eraser had the human race pretty well sized up.
More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. —Woody Allen
If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! —Henry Longfellow
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance. —John Ruski
Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. —Thomas Henry Huxley
...every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures. —Ellen Glasgow (1874-1945)
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools. —Franklin D.Rooselvelt
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet’s irreplaceable capital. —Aldous Huxley Modern man no longer regards Nature as being in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conquerer and tyrant. —Aldous Huxley
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more. —George Gordon
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. —John Muir
If having endured much, we at last asserted our ‘right to know’ and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us. —Rachel Carson
America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.
—Stewart L. Udall
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men’s apples and head their cabbages. —Cyrano de Bergerac
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. —Richard Feynman
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. —Buckminster Fuller
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
—Theodore Roosevelt
We need the tonic of wildness [and]...nature. —Henry David Thoreau
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. —Aldo Leopold
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. —Marya Mannes
The joy of looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift. —Albert Einstein
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. —Wordsworth
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments—there are consequences. —Robert Green Ingersoll
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. —Rene Dubos
We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making. —Joseph Chilton Pearce
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
—George Washington Carver
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. —Henry Fuseli
I don’t read no papers and I don’t listen to the radio either. I know the world’s been shaved by a drunken barber and I don’t need to read about it. —Walter Brennan
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. —Wendell Berry
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. —Marshall McLuhan
Wisdom begins in wonder. —Socrates
The Law locks up the hapless felon who steals the goose from off the common, but lets the greater felon loose who steals the common from the goose.
Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die. —Gil Stern
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way animals are treated. —Mahatma Gandhi
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay some forms of life arise. —Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
—Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. —Emerson (1803-1882)
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. —Voltaire (1694-1778)
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 (1834-1913)
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. —Pope (1688-1744)
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in our nature. —Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. —Alexander Smith
Man is the only asynchronous, heuristically-programmed computer which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
The man who invented the eraser had the human race pretty well sized up.
More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. —Woody Allen
If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! —Henry Longfellow
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance. —John Ruski
Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. —Thomas Henry Huxley
...every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures. —Ellen Glasgow (1874-1945)
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools. —Franklin D.Rooselvelt
Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet’s irreplaceable capital. —Aldous Huxley Modern man no longer regards Nature as being in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conquerer and tyrant. —Aldous Huxley
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more. —George Gordon
The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. —John Muir
If having endured much, we at last asserted our ‘right to know’ and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us. —Rachel Carson
America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.
—Stewart L. Udall
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men’s apples and head their cabbages. —Cyrano de Bergerac
Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. —Richard Feynman
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. —Buckminster Fuller
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
—Theodore Roosevelt
We need the tonic of wildness [and]...nature. —Henry David Thoreau
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. —Aldo Leopold
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. —Marya Mannes
The joy of looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift. —Albert Einstein
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. —Wordsworth
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments—there are consequences. —Robert Green Ingersoll
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. —Rene Dubos
We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making. —Joseph Chilton Pearce
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
—George Washington Carver
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. —Henry Fuseli
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