nature Quotes

I love the sea.

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.