Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
-Martin Cruz Smith
Quotations
Nature
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?
-John Steinbeck
"Travels with Charley: In Search of America"
We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.
-Richard Black
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
-Nora Roberts
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
-Gérard De Nerval
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.
-James Dent
Take a look at your natural river. Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don’t you see that there is no effort if you’re riding with your river?
-Frederick Carl Frieseke "Frederick. C. Frieseke"
Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
-Francis Bacon
Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.
-Kelly Braffet
"Josie and Jack"
There is no other enemy of a human being except his own nature.
-Deep Trivedi
