" I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being. "
- Terri Irwin (via wild-placephotography)
(Source: upendobahari)
" Who is to say that only human beings are persons? Isn’t this gorilla demonstrably a person? In our society, a person has certain rights, limited as they may be. Granting these rights to primates opens the doors for the animal world. Western civilization has always argued that man was created in the image of God, and was intrinsically different from animals and nature. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution already shattered this view of man’s uniqueness. "
- Koko: A Talking Gorilla
" Don’t let anyone tell you you’re too young to achieve anything. A baby shark is still a fucking shark. "
- (via mad-as-a-marine-biologist)
(Source: twitter.com)
" Maybe I need you the way that big moon need that open sea. Maybe I didn’t even know I was here until I saw you holding me. "
- Andrea Gibson, “Maybe I need you” (via caramelzappa)
" Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them- if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry. "
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via black-wolves)
" I needed to know why people were killing sharks, and what I could do to stop it. So I left my job as a photographer, and set out to make a film about them. But they were gone. In places where I’d always found hundreds of sharks, I only found a few. Shark populations had been decimated all over the world, and the last sharks were being hunted down in the few remaining sanctuaries. Nobody noticed. Everyone wanted to save pandas, elephants and bears. And the world was afraid of sharks. "
- Rob Stewart, Sharkwater (2007)
(Source: caong)
" Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. "
- Walt Whitman (via mentalfornication)
(Source: fernsandmoss)
" Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of the heavens. "
- George Washington Carver (via mentalfornication)
(Source: corona-borealis)
“People think depression is about being sad. They think it’s just when you ‘feel down’. It’s not. It’s like a darkness that creeps over you and fills you. It drains all your emotions. It takes everything from you, and leaves you feeling hollow and numb. It’s not sadness, it’s not anger, it’s hopelessness. Imagine waking up and there being no color. Walking outside and feeling no wind. Eating a meal and tasting nothing. Holding someone and feeling completely alone at the same time. When you’re depressed, it’s not a bad mood. It’s a numb, empty, hollowness that seems to never leave. It’s feeling alone in a room full of people. You feel like there’s no hope left.”
(Source: Mykindafairytalee)
" The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. "
- Unknown (via natureismysanctuary)
" You can easily judge the character of a man, by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. "
- James D. Miles (via tapio-ca)
" Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. "
- John Ruskin (via natureismysanctuary)
" Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. "
- John Muir (via natureismysanctuary)
