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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForIn context
- Life & Death
One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
Mark Twain1835–1910New England Weather, speech to the New England Society (December 22, 1876)
- Comedy
It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XIXIn context
The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
Jules Verne1828–1905Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter XIn context
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore Vidal1925–2012“Gods and Greens” (1989)
Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Human subtlety…will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, ed. J. P. Richter, No. 837
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Alice Walkerborn 1944The Color Purple (1982)
- God
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Andy Warhol1928–1987In: “Inside Andy Warhol,” by Andy Warhol. Cosmopolitan, 179, Sept. 1975, p. 189.
Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals.
Alan Watts1915–1973The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966), Inside Information
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), p. 19
- Change
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers
H. G. Wells1866–1946The War of the Worlds (1898), Book Two: The Earth under the Martians, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Life & Death
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Time Machine (1895), Chapter XIn context
- Time
The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Chapter XIVIn context
- Science
There is⁠—though I do not know how there is or why there is⁠—a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Hope