Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
Dictionary: the universe in alphabetical order.
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together in a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language — not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may need to read the great book which is written in that tongue.
noun, 1. a hollow place under the ground or in the side of a mountain or rock, sheltered from the elements
verb, 2. to fall in, collapse
verb, 3. to submit
1. Behold! Human beings living in an underground den, like ourselves … they see only their own shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.
Plato
2. When life caves in you don’t need reasons — you need comfort.
Bob Benson
3. When things are really dismal, you can laugh or you can cave in completely.
Margaret Atwood
noun
1. a mass or lump made by a liquid such as blood that thickens and sticks together
2. a foolish or clumsy person
verb, 3. to cause to form a mass of fluid like a lump
1. I need to be a clot over the wound that which heals …Not a clot in the artery that clogs.
Nihara
2. This is the true joy of life: the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish, little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
3. When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
noun, an aquatic invertebrate animal found in fresh and salt water of a phylum that includes jellyfish, corals and sea anemones
Coelenterates date back 200 million years ago to the Jurassic Period, currently have over 9,000 living species distinguished by having a tube or cup like body and a single opening ringed with tentacles that poison and paralyze their prey.
noun, sympathy for suffering, kindness
He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William Faulkner
noun
1. a stony structure formed in shallow waters made up of colonies of thousands of tiny animals called polyps
2. a sedentary aquatic invertebrate animal of warm and tropical seas that relies on the presence of green algae in their tissues to obtain energy from light
1. It’s impossible to imagine our planet without coral.
Ian Somerholder
2. In the last 30 years we have lost 50% of the world’s corals.
‘Chasing Coral’
noun, no plural, the strength to face danger when overwhelmed by fear Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
noun, a sea animal with eight legs, a pair of pincers and a hard shell that lives in a hole
Sometimes you need to walk sideways to move forward just like a crab.
adjective
1. having a positive result, helpful
2. fulfilling a specified function in fact though not recognized as such
1. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi
2. Seeing what is not effective is effective for understanding what is effective.
Peter Venturi
noun, a long-legged wading bird of the heron family with white feathers
Seeing an egret is always a good omen. The egret is a symbol of grace and purity in nature.
noun
1. the capacity for performing work
2. power that makes machines work
3. the property of matter and radiation which is manifested as a capacity such as the interaction of molecules
1. The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Aristotle
2. Law of Conservation of Energy: Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
3. The Sun’s energy is needed to sustain life. Every 1.5 millionths of a second, the Sun releases more energy than all humans consume in an entire year.
