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" We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. "

Lewis Thomas

Man

Birds

Earth

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" A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own terms. "

Michael Frome

Nature

Own

" Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. "

" This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. "

" I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature. "

" If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. "

" Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance. "

" There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain. "

" Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. "

" There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers. "

" If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry. "

" When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. "

Joseph Joubert

Nature

" Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. "

" No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. "

" We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. "

" It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. "

" What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Eternity

Because

" Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. "

Lewis Thomas

Human

Matter

" During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. "

" Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. "

" There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. "

" It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. "

" Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. "

" When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement. "

" Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Never

Deceive

" Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. "

" Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. "

" Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. "

" Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. "