Conditions Quote by Donella Meadows

“Compared to forest or aquatic ecosystems, grassland is unstable. It requires rather precise geological and climatic conditions, and if these conditions are not maintained--if…

— David Rains Wallace

[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“A healthy forest, untouched by forestry technology, is made up of a strange mixture of vegetation. Alongside well-defined areas of noble trees, conditions of…

— Viktor Schauberger

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

Forests, which I think do contain a lot mystery and traditionally are the setting for lawlessness and magic and what is outside of the…

— Nicole Krauss

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves…

— Orison Swett Marden

Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains…

— Edward Forbes

“Each pregnant Oak ten thousand acorns forms Profusely scatter'd by autumnal storms; Ten thousand seeds each pregnant poppy sheds Profusely scatter'd from its waving…

— Erasmus Darwin

Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see…

— Henry David Thoreau

Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are…

— H. P. Lovecraft

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.

— Annie Dillard