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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work⁠—
I am the grass; I cover all.
Carl Sandburg1878–1967Grass (1918)In context
- Nature
- War & Peace
If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you’re in big trouble.
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences (2001)
- Comedy
There is no reason to be less moved by nature around us simply because it’s revealed to have more layers of complexity than we first observed.
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957Emperor Has No Clothes Award acceptance speech (2003)
- Nature
The stars hide away their shining form around the lovely moon when in all her fullness she shines (over all) the earth.
Sappho650–550 BCFr. 34 Voigt (tr. David A. Campbell, 1982)
- Nature
We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators.
Erwin Schrödinger1887–1961Nature and the Greeks (1954)
- Philosophy
Scientific and technological “solutions” which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.
ESE. F. Schumacher1911–1977Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973), p. 31.
- Technology
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Kulturphilosophie (1923)
- Animals
- Nature
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Troilus and Cressida
- Nature
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act III, Scene II, spoken by LearIn context
- Anger
- Nature
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act II, Scene I, spoken by OberonIn context
- Nature
Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act III, Scene II, spoken by CalibanIn context
- Music
- Nature
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act V, Scene I, spoken by ArielIn context
- Happiness
- Nature
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act II, Scene I, spoken by Duke SeniorIn context
- Nature
- Wisdom
Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird’s throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither!
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act II, Scene V, spoken by AmiensIn context
- Music
- Nature
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude.
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act II, Scene VII, spoken by AmiensIn context
- Character
- Nature