Richard Mabey famous quotes

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An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that in order to so exist, organisms must relate to each other and to the earth itself.
-- Richard Mabey

#Nature #Order #Earth
To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.
-- Richard Mabey

#Roots #Tree #Way
Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.
-- Richard Mabey

#Moving #Cat #Grace
Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places.
-- Richard Mabey

#Knowing #Way
Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop.
-- Richard Mabey

#Weed #Nature #Successful

Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none, Nor seen unveil'd by anyone), When Harvey's violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree: There Daphne's Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp'd not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.
There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed...
There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.
An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there is nothing new to a place where there is nothing old, where everything renews itself, where heaven and earth rejoice as at the moment of creation.

Richard Mabey famous quotes

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