“We love comfort. And happiness. You know what nature loves and why it thrives? There is mutation. There is disruption. It's easy for people to say hey you need to adapt and you need to evolve. Wait how do I do that? Well, nature is locally attuned. It has an understanding for the essence around it,…”— Duke Stump, youtube.com
“Most people don't realize that the slaughter plant is much gentler than nature. Animals in the wild die from starvation, predators, or exposure. If I had a choice, I would rather go through a slaughter system than have my guts ripped out by coyotes or lions while I was still conscious. Unfortunately…”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“Night air, good conversation, and a sky full of stars can heal almost any wound.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Est…”— Barry Goldwater, newspapers.com
“But my pleasures arose from the contemplation of nature alone, I had no companion: my warm affections finding no return from any other human heart were forced to run waste on inanimate objects.”— Mary Shelley, books.google.com
“My greatest pleasure was the enjoyment of a serene sky amidst these verdant woods: yet I loved all the changes of Nature; and rain, and storm, and the beautiful clouds of heaven brought their delights with them. When rocked by the waves of the lake my spirits rose in triumph as a horseman feels with…”— Mary Shelley, books.google.com
“A little while ago I took a nap under an olive tree, and the color harmonies I saw were so touching. It's like a paradise you have no right to analyze, but you are a painter, for God's sake! Nice is so beautiful! Alight so soft and tender, despite its brilliance.”— Henri Matisse, en.wikiquote.org
“An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythms, by effort that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.”— Henri Matisse, en.wikiquote.org
“Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality.”— Henri Matisse, en.wikiquote.org
“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.”— Jacques Cousteau, en.wikiquote.org
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“If someone offers you ten thousand dollars or ten trees, take the trees.”— Alex Hutchinson, newyorker.com