life

Given enough time, hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from.

- Edward Robert Harrison

To neglect man and speculate about nature is to misunderstand the facts of the universe.

- Xunzi

Grey is all theory, evergreen is the tree of life.

- Isaac Deutscher

Instinct is the memory of generations and begins where life itself starts.

- Zina Trotsky

Evolution is phenomenon of populations.

- Edward Wilson

The environment is the theatre and evolution is the play.

- G. Evelyn Hutchinson

The better an ecosystem is known, the less likely it will be destroyed.

- Edward Wilson

There are still surprises for travelers who motor deep into the country and walk into the woods.

- Donald Culross Peattie

The tropical rain forest, though home to tens of thousands of species, is in a sense a counterfeit paradise, a castle of immense biological sophistication built quite literally on a foundation of sand.

- Wade Davis

Water is timeless. Forever new and eternal.

- Marjorie Stoneman Douglas

Every drop of rain on the solid aggregate of minerals is a hammer blow.

- Jack Davis

Eating is an agricultural act.

- Wendell Berry

It is necessary that things should pass away into that from which they are born.

- Anaximander

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

- Francis Bacon

Life is a gift of nature but living is a gift of wisdom.

- Greek adage

Quid est mare? Refugium in periculis.

- Alcuins Catechism

The warmth of southern sun pervades in subtle ways the northern shades.

- Luís de Camões