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, a faintly blue gas obtained by the silent discharge of electricity in air
If one system is diseased, like the ozone layer, then other systems develop abnormalities in function— the crops will die, the plankton will be damaged, and the eyes of all creatures on the planet will be diseased and vision impaired.
Helen Caldicott
noun
1. a period of harmony among nations when there is no war
2. a calm ordered condition
1. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
2. Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
noun, the quality of having a ready insight into things
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
Andre Gide
verb
1. to have as property, to own, to control
2. to have complete power over someone and be manifested through their speech or actions
1. Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sing best.
Henry Van Dyke
2. A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Robert Bolton
noun, an animal that eats other animals
Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees to flee predators.
noun
1. any animal that serves as food for another animal
2. to catch and kill for food
1. Both the predator and prey have one thing in common, the battle for survival, the struggle for sustenance.
Emmanuel Apetsi
2. So, naturalists observe, a flee; hath smaller fleas that on him prey to bite ’em, and so proceed ad infinitum.
Jonathan Swift
verb, to guard or defend, to keep safe from harm or injury
I don’t want to protect the environment. I want to create a world where the environment doesn’t need protecting.
Anonymous
noun, a ridge of jagged rock , coral or sand just above or below the surface of the sea
Coral reefs represent some of the world’s most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea’s most exquisite species will not survive.
Scheherazade Goldsmith
noun
1. repetition of a beat played throughout a musical piece
2. the recurrence of movement or a sound at regular intervals
3. a particular pattern formed by repeated sounds
1. One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one’s life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature. Rudolf Steiner
2. An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. Henri Matisse
3. Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Edith Sitwell
noun, a grass like plant that is vital for life on land that lives on or close to the sea all over world from the Arctic Circle to the tropics
Seagrasses are the lungs of the sea, providing vital oxygen to marine life.
Richard Branson
