“The Wings of all kinds of Insects, are, for the most part, very beautifull Objects, and afford no less pleasing an Object to the mind to speculate upon, then to the eye to behold.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“By this the Earth it self, which lyes so near us, under our feet, shews quite a new thing to us, and in every little particle of its matter, we now behold almost as great a variety of Creatures, as we were able before to reckon up in the Whole Universe itself.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“Baby take a look at my life Let's drop the top on my ride baby Yo nigga ain't hittin' that right Come roll with me for the night baby”— Fetty Wap, genius.com
“Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.”— Terence McKenna, amazon.com
“I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.”— George Washington Carver, christianquotes.info
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.”— George Washington Carver, amazon.com
“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books . . .”— George Washington Carver, amazon.com
“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”— George Washington Carver, goodreads.com
“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”— Mary Oliver, goodreads.com
“The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.”— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com
“Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin.”— Antoni Gaudí, amazon.com
“Lemurs are close to the ancestral stock from which all primates arose, and I am happy to think that one of my own ancestors, 50 million years ago, was a little tree-dwelling creature not so dissimilar to the lemurs of today. I love their leaping vitality, their inquisitive nature.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“Now, as I wandered in the cycad forest on Rota, it seemed as if my senses were actually enlarging, as if a new sense, a time sense, was opening within me, something which might allow me to appreciate millennia or aeons as directly as I had experienced seconds or minutes.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“The primeval, the sublime, are much better words here — for they indicate realms remote from the moral or the human, realms which force us to gaze into immense vistas of space and time, where the beginnings and originations of all things lie hidden.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“But gardens, Eden or Kew, are not the right metaphors here, for the primeval has nothing to do with the human, but has to do with the ancient, the aboriginal, the beginning of all things.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“I find myself walking softly on the right undergrowth beneath the trees, not wanting to crack a twig, to crush or disturb anything in the least--for there is such a sense of stillness and peace that the wrong sort of movement, even one's very presence, might be fest as an intrusion, and, so to speak…”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“The beauty of the forest is extraordinary — but “beauty” is too simple a word, for being here is not just an aesthetic experience, but one steeped with mystery, with awe”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com