Lucretius Quotes

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Without rain, there would be no life.

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.

Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth can’t even exist without carbon dioxide. So necessary is it to human life, to animal life, to plant life, to the oceans, to the vegetation that’s on the Earth, to the, to the fowl that - that flies in the air, we need to have carbon dioxide as part of the fundamental lifecycle of Earth.

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.

Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.

Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.

It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.

Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.

The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.

It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

Mother Earth is very talented.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.