Quotes on Nature

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than seven-times-seven types of ambiguity in science, awaiting analysis. The poetry of Wallace Stevens is crystal-clear alongside the genetic code.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

A sensitive plant in a garden grew,_x000D_ _x000D_ And the young winds fed it with silver dew,_x000D_ _x000D_ And it opened its fan_x000D_ _x000D_ like leaves to the light,_x000D_ _x000D_ and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and he holds a closer and more vital relation to nature because he is freer and his mind more at leisure.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again, it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening, reminiscences of our sanest hours. The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.