The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli
Health
noun, the condition of the body or mind free from sickness or disease
Nature is a dictionary
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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
- Eugene Delacroix
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Dictionary: the universe in alphabetical order.
- Anatole France
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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.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hibernate
noun
1. the condition or state in which an animal or plant spends the winter in a dormant state
2. an extended period of feeling inactive indoors
1. Some animals just slow down or move less frequently during hibernation, but others go into a deep sleep and don’t wake up till Spring.
2. In hibernation we find solace in the great stillness of nature.
Hope
noun
1. a feeling of confidence, expectation
2. to look forward to something believing that it will happen
1. Where flowers bloom, so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson
2. They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Tom Bodett
Ibis
noun, a large wading bird with long legs, a long neck and a long down-curved bill.
What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
Alfred Russell Wallace
Indomitable
adjective, unconquerable
Nature is enormously resilient, humans are vastly intelligent, the energy and enthusiasm that can be kindled among young people seems without limit, and the human spirit is indomitable.
Jane Goodall
Inspire
verb, to stimulate, to think and to act, to influence
Inspire people to do the things that inspire them, and together we can change our world.
Simon Sinek
Know
verb
1. to understand clearly, to learn
2. to be skilled in
3. to be acquainted with someone
1. We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.
W.H. Audem
2. Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
Bertrand Russell
3. The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.
Alfred Adler
Laboratory
noun, a place devoted to the experiments in natural science
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairytales.
Marie Curie
Lobster
noun, an edible sea animal with a shell, a tail and ten legs
What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me and me to you?
Gregory Bateson
Machine
noun, a device made to consume energy to produce another form of energy to do some kind of work
The intellectual desolation artificially produced by converting immature human beings into mere machines.
Karl Marx
