41 Quotes About Natural-world

There are very few of us who remember the day, the moment, when our childhood ends. For most of us, the sun sets on our innocence gradually, sliding down over the western horizon like a toboggan run down over a long, steep slope. We are never really conscious of the moment we reach the bottom of the slope; we just know that one day we wake up and the toboggan ride is over.

Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence

There is an instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems. We resonate with animals especially those animals that breathe, hear, see, sense, taste and emote similar to us. We hold an especially strong affinity with warm-blooded mammals because we all spring from the same primordial mist as anatomically evidenced by the vestigial tailbone of humans and vestigial leg bones of whales.

There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.

If people start paying attention to the organisms that are thriving, unseen, among us, I think it will change us for the better: On the political scale, we'll become more realistic and effective in our efforts to protect the environment; on the personal scale, we'll be happier and more full of wonder.

See how forgiving - how brave nature is.

Stop and unplug,” say I; “look around you, at the vastness and greatness of the natural world.” Some stop. Others need binoculars to tie their shoelaces.

As the natural world grows smaller, so too does its intensity and the size of the window through which it may be viewed.

Goshawks are things of death and blood and gore, but they are not excuses for atrocities. Their inhumanity is to be treasured because what they do has nothing to do with us at all.