Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Week #1: Naturalist Quotes

Hey Scholars,

For this first weeks post we will start off with something easy. Find and post a quote about nature, then comment on someone else's post from class.

Cheers,

Mr. D

80 comments:

  1. "Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"

    -Rose Kennedy

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  2. "I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright." ~Henry David Thoreau
    -Samantha Paule p.3

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  3. After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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  4. "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
    Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Parts of Animals

    Jessica Corder

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    1. True Because there's always something new to find

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  5. "Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."
    John Lubbock

    Justin Lamorie
    3rd period

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  6. "Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."-Russell Baker

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  7. My Nature Quote:

    There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

    CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech, Jul. 25, 1924

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    1. That's really true, there's nothing i love moe than a stroll through the woods after along day or a hikin trip to get you moving after a winter storm:)

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    2. So true. Nature does have an effect on our emotions

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  8. The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

    Sierra Dee, 4th

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    1. Just like the little goldfish after only two weeks in our lab.

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  9. We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.
    -Thich Nhat Hanh

    Chaila.Y P3

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  10. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_nature.html

    "All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God"

    -Lyric Levester, 3rd period

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  11. Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_nature2.html

    tyler
    3rd

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  12. Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.  ~Kahlil Gibran

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  13. “Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."” -Maya Angelou


    Keeland Carpenter, 3rd period

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    1. I like your quote. It makes sense.

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    2. That's hilarious. I love it. :)

      Emily Cluen, 3rd period

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  14. "Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished."
    ~Sir Francis Bacon

    http://www.nsrider.com/quotes/nature.htm

    Megan Kellum
    4th Period

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  15. A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.


    Gio Gray
    4th period

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  16. "Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."
    ~Roger Tory Peterson


    Melissa
    4th

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  17. “Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.”




    Albert Einstein

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    1. I like this quote because it basically justifies that wherever you go nature is always near:)

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  18. "Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible." ~Jerome K. Jerome

    Kaitlyn Jones, 4th

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  19. “The beach is in our blood. Everyone in our family returns to the beach instinctively, just like the sea turtles.”

    -Sandy Archibald

    Kayla Sanderson, 3rd prd

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    1. this one has to be the most truthful on because all you hear now-a-days is "I wanna go to the beach." or "I can't wait to go back to the beach!" or "Going to the beach today!"good job Kayla.

      Detrich Meadows, 3rd period

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    2. I like this one. Since we live so close to the beach I think some people take it for granted sometimes. I can't wait til it gets warm enough to go to the beach now. :)

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  20. "I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal.... I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."

    — Ellen DeGeneres

    dwyane patterson 4th period

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  21. I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~George Washington Carver

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  22. "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin" -William Shakespeare


    Gabbi Rohn
    3rd period

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  23. " Nature ... the only love that does not deceive human hope."
    ~ Honore de Balzac

    (Destiny Jackson, 4th Period)

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  24. "Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying." - Langston Hughes

    Stephanie Stitz
    3rd

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  25. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu

    -Vicki Smith, 3rd Period

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    1. I agree with this quote because we only can live and take one day at a time.

      Emily Futral

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  26. I like Destiny's quote "Nature ... the only love that does not deceive human hope." (Honore de Balzac) It's true :) nature dooesn't deceive, doesn't hide either... we just don't always open our eyes wide enough.

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  27. "Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money." ~Cree Indian Proverb

    ~Owyn Pelletier

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  28. "Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong."

    — George Carlin

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  29. "A lot of people like snow. I find it to be unnecessary freezing of water." - Carl Reiner

    Nick Hall 4th period

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  30. Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ~Albert Einstein

    Latina Bailey

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  31. "We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. "
    William Hazlitt "On Taste" (1859)
    Alex Nelson 3rd period

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  32. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”
    -Alice Walker

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    1. I like how this quote really captures the meaning behind evrything is not perfect but its own unique self.

      ~Owyn pelletier~3 period

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    2. I really like this quote, I feel it explains nature very well.

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  33. "Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil" -Anatole France

    Tim Roncal 3rd

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  34. a light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
    -Anne Bronte

    Makayla Smith

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  35. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Keila Moreno 4th pd

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  36. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Keila Moreno 4th pd

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  37. "If a tree falls in the woods, and there's no one there to hear it, how will the Environmentalists react?"

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  38. "I never saw a purple cow;
    I never hope to see one;
    But I can tell you, anyhow,
    I'd rather see than be one."
    — Gelett Burgess

    Katie Myers, 3rd period

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  39. The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask -Nancy Newhall

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  40. A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
    Lou Holtz

    Beth Dillard 4th period

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  41. All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
    Abraham Lincoln



    Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_nature.html#ixzz1lZW1nGBH

    Emily Futral 3rd period

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  42. Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

    Gerard De Nerval

    Diamond Jackson 4th period

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  43. Wilderness is not a luxury But a necessity to human spirit
    William Abby



    Dominique Heath 3rd

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  44. "To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug"
    -Helen Keller

    Braxton Duncan, 3rd Period

    http://www.quotegarden.com/nature.html

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  45. The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown

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  46. There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. ~Robert Orben

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