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“Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.”

Knows May Earth Nature Animal Responsibility Known Generations Late Plant Too Late Capability Organisms Insects Future Generation Habitat

Book:Worlds in Harmony

Source: Worlds in Harmony

“Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.”

May Lasts Nature Powerful Mountain Findings Late Summer Snow June Patches Very Powerful

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.”

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.”

Wisdom Nature Learning Late Diets

Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

“The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.”

World Littles Nature Environment Too Much Waste Late Lays Spending Boon Superhuman Powers

Author:William Wordsworth

“You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.”

Faces Fighting Nature Late Adversity Weed Afternoon Weekend Monday Gorgeous Dandelions Facing Adversity

Author:Hal Borland

“Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.”

Science Next Nature Natural Century Evolution Late Blessed Sacred Chains Phrases

Author:Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

“We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily... But although the symmetries are hidden from us, we can sense that they are latent in nature, governing everything about us. That's the most exciting idea I know: that nature is much simpler than it looks. Nothing makes me more hopeful that our generation of human beings may actually hold the key to the universe in our hands - that perhaps in our lifetimes we may be able to tell why all of what we see in this immense universe of galaxies and particles is logically inevitable.”