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"The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour"
"Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology is simply the key by which myriads of these signs, hitherto indecipherable, can be unlocked and perused, and thus a new province added to the poetical domain."
"Through art we express our conception of what nature is not."
"For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours."
"From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent; from the standpoint of the student of development and heredity the fact of recapitulation is a difficult problem whose solution would perhaps give the key to a true understanding of the real nature of heredity."
"The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest."
"It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad."
"We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures."
"The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally."
"When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap."
"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth."
"The course of Nature is the art of God"
"Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity."
"In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!"
"What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?"
"And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?"
"In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature."
"[A persons] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value."
"Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature."
"The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future"
