The setting sun threatened to consume me—it could have, you know. It would have been a beautiful death with an honorable eulogy: slain by a magnificent slice of piercing orange energy. I simply turned and walked away; I would live another day.
Chila WoychikTags: writing nature sun writing-process on-being-a-rat death-by-sun rural-living
Humans are the unrivaled plague the nature has even seen.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: nature humans plague unrivaled
At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural world amid which we live can gain on our hearts and minds? We go to Nature for comfort in trouble, and sympathy in joy, only in books. Admiration of those beauties of the inanimate world, which modern poetry so largely and so eloquently describes, is not, even in the best of us, one of the original instincts of our nature. As children, we none of us possess it. No uninstructed man or woman possesses it. Those whose lives are most exclusively passed amid the ever-changing wonders of sea and land are also those who are most universally insensible to every aspect of Nature not directly associated with the human interest of their calling. Our capacity of appreciating the beauties of the earth we live on is, in truth, one of the civilised accomplishments which we all learn as an Art; and, more, that very capacity is rarely practised by any of us except when our minds are most indolent and most unoccupied. How much share have the attractions of Nature ever had in the pleasurable or painful interests and emotions of ourselves or our friends? What space do they ever occupy in the thousand little narratives of personal experience which pass every day by word of mouth from one of us to the other? All that our minds can compass, all that our hearts can learn, can be accomplished with equal certainty, equal profit, and equal satisfaction to ourselves, in the poorest as in the richest prospect that the face of the earth can show. There is surely a reason for this want of inborn sympathy between the creature and the creation around it, a reason which may perhaps be found in the widely-differing destinies of man and his earthly sphere. The grandest mountain prospect that the eye can range over is appointed to annihilation. The smallest human interest that the pure heart can feel is appointed to immortality.
Wilkie CollinsTags: nature
It's so beautiful where I am today that it makes me wonder where I am.
Steve MartinTags: nature
I have a problem with state lines, anyway. They interrupt things. They fragment ecosystems, which are nature's most gracious and logical land divisions.
Michael McCoyTags: nature ecosystems states borders natural-divisions political-divisions
There is something deeply awe-inspiring about the sight of any living creatures in incomputable numbers; it stirs, perhaps, some atavistic chord whose note belongs more properly to the distant days when we were a true part of the animal ecology; when the sight of another species in unthinkable hosts brought fears or hopes no longer applicable.
Gavin MaxwellTags: animals humanity nature ecology nature-of-man
Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
Cyril PonnamperumaTags: science nature human scientists discovery scientific-method bias process advantage
Nature never jests.
Albrecht von HallerTags: science nature joke jest
Now I know what the atom looks like.
Ernest RutherfordTags: wisdom science truth reality knowledge nature physics nobel-laureate atom
Defending nature is defending our existence!
Mehmet Murat ildanTags: nature
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