Friday 6 May 2011

Quotes on NAture

“I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything;

Charle Darwin

Nothing exists for itself alone,
but only in relation to other forms of life.

Charles Darwin

A nature lover is someone who, when treed by a bear, enjoys the view.



They sneer at gravity,
laugh at physics,
and humble the colors of the rainbow.

Pete Dunne
( birds)



If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won’t see anything.

- Ruth Bernhard
( gems/ Micro organisms)



I never saw a disconnected tree. They grip the ground as though they like it, and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering in all directions with every wing, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day and through space heaven knows how fast!

- John Muir


In wildness is the preservation of the world.

- Henry David Thoreau


An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

David Attenborough



"Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself."

- L.W. Gilbert


"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light."

Theodore Roethke, poet




"To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wildflower:
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."

- William Blake




"If a man walks in the woods for love of them, half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed as an industrious and enterprising citizen."

- Henry David Thoreau


"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida



"When a species dies, it leaves a silent space in the worldsong that can never be filled."
- Charles de Lint, Svaha



The investigation of nature is an infinite pleasure-ground where all may graze.

- T.H.Huxley, 1871




One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

- Shakespeare

All good things are wild and free.

- Henry David Thoreau


If you truly love nature,

you will find beauty everywhere.

- Vincent Van Gough



All things share the same breath -

the beast, the tree, the man…

the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

- Chief Seattle


Come forth into the light of things.

Let nature be your teacher.

- Williams Wordsworth


Mysterious and little-known creatures live within reach of where you sit.

Splendor awaits in minute proportions.

- E.O.Wilson


Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle


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