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.
verb
1. to create or produce
2. to force
3. to earn or win
1. The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
2. No matter how many times you have been wronged or hurt by others, all it takes is one act of kindness to make you believe in the goodness that exists in the world.
3. I’ve learned that making a living is not the same as making a life.
noun, a marine mammal that lives in warm waters also known as sea cows
Manatees spend half their day eating plants to maintain 10% of their body mass of 1200 pounds.
noun, any tropical evergreen or shrubs that thrive in coastal waters; their roots form a tangled network that protect young fish, birds, crocodiles and other animals.
If there are no mangroves, then the sea will have no meaning. It’s like a tree with no roots, for the mangroves are the roots of the sea.
Mad-Ha Ranwasii, Thai fisherman
adjective, 1. intended to communicate something that is not directly expressed
noun, 2. what is intended by a word, text, concept or action
1. Four factors convey word meaning through body language: sense, feeling, tone and intention.
2. The one who plants trees, knowing that he or she will never sit in its shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
Rabindranath Tagore
verb, to change or cause to change completely in form or nature
The ultimate objective of the spiritual journey is to metamorphose into a Divine Being.
Guruji Krishnananda
noun, a change from one form of development or shape into another
The theory of metamorphosis goes beyond world risk society; it is not about the negative side effects of goods but about the positive side effects of bads.
Ulrich Beck
verb
1. to move from one land to settle in another
2. to make a journey each year from one place to another at the same time of year
1. People and animals migrate in search of a safe place to live away from war and predators.
2. People also called nomads and birds or herds of animals travel from one place to another in search of food and warm weather to survive instead of building homes.
noun, dirt, waste matter, rubbish
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the wellbeing of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them. If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.
Theodore Roosevelt
adjective, quick to notice things
The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world is too wide for the eye of one man.
Charles Spurgeon
verb
1. to see or notice
2. to comment
3. to mark an event or day
1. Since the measuring device has been constructed by the observer… we have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Karl Heisenberg
2. Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
Hesiod
3. Observe Earth Day by planting a tree or a flower.
