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No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
Author: Llewelyn Powys
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
Author: Socrates
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Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.
Author: Gil Stern
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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.
Author: William Wordsworth
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
Author: Francis Bacon
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
Author: Elwyn Brooks White
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Author: Haida Indian saying
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Author: Albert Schweitzer
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Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
Author: Ian McHarg
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Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
Author: James Anthony Froude
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Author: Samuel Butler
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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
Author: Havelock Ellis
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We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
Author: John Dewey
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Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Author: Henrik Tikkanen
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We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
Author: Margaret Mead
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Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
Author: Alan Wilson Watts
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What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.
Author: Voltaire
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Author: Aeschylus
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There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Author: Thomas Hobbes
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He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.
Author: Norman Mailer
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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Author: Mother Teresa
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
Author: John Updike
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As for evolution, I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoan bumped into each other under a volcanic cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford.
Author: Robert G.Lee
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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
Author: Dogen
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anonymous fruit.
Author: Clare Booth Luce
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Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Author: Luther Burbank
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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.
Author: Henry Fuseli
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson
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Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.
Author: Irving Burns
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I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.
Author: Darryl Cherney
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Author: Annie Dillard
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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
Author: John Fowles
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Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species that roams corporate waters will prove just as hardy.
Author: Eric Gelman
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As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.
Author: Stephen Graham
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Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?
Author: Frank N. Ikard
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I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.
Author: Adeline Knapp
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Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.
Author: Virgil A. Kraft
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
Author: William Manchester
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For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.
Author: Tom Mcmillan
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It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Author: Dan Quayle
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Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.
Author: Edward Payson Rod
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And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?
Author: Carl Sandburg
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Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path, to vanish into the vast sea of God.
Author: Richard Selzer
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