“Nature is the art of God” – Dante Alighieri
The first quote that I will be using is from the book “The Art of Being Human” and it was by Dante Alighieri and he said “Nature is the art of God”. I completely agree with quote because I was raised as a christian. I believe that nature is used as a way to spread the word of God because not everyone in the world may be able to ever get their hands on a bible but no matter where we are we can always see nature, such as a sunrise or sunset, or beautiful creatures that make us question that these beautiful things couldn’t have just randomly came about. Someone or something had to have created them. Nature is so complex but beautiful at the same time that it makes your brain go off and start to wonder.
“Each moment is absolute, alive, and significant. The frog leaps, the cricket sings, a dewdrop glitters on the lotus leaf, a breeze passes through the pine branches, and the moonlight falls on the murmuring stream” – D.T Suzuki
The next quote I will be using is by D.T Suzuki and he said “Each moment is absolute, alive, and significant. The frog leaps, the cricket sings, a dewdrop glitters on the lotus leaf, a breeze passes through the pine branches, and the moonlight falls on the murmuring stream”. For me, I see this quote as taking your time to truly see every little detail that comes with nature. Just take a moment to actually sit and enjoy everything that is around you. Everything is breathing with you, the trees, the insects, the flowers and the animals. When we take the time to just soak everything in, we tend to see things that we would have missed if we rushed our time with nature. We feel everything, the small gust of wind that hits off our face and gives us a small chill, but then right after the warmth of the sun comes back and relieves us of that chill. It is just up to us to take time out of our day to go and make that connection.
“Only in the profoundly unbounded sea can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out” – Herman Melville
The final quote that I will be doing is by Herman Melville and he said “Only in the profoundly unbounded sea can the fully invested whale be truly and livingly found out”. I agree with this quote because I do not think humans understand just how important it is for an animal to live in its natural habitat. These places, such as sea world take whale and dolphins and many more sea creatures away from their family to be a “show”. They weren’t created for a show. If you truly want to study a sea creature and get to know every little habit it does, try observing it through what they know best, their own habitat. We confine these whales into a tank with about a 3 tons of water and we think that its fine, but in reality this mammal is used to having an open ocean in front of it. Where they can breach, dive deep, and swim elegantly. We just need to leave everything be. Study it from afar. Do not disturb it. Over time, our answers about a specific animal will be answered without having to disrupt it.
Janaro, R. P., & Altshuler, T. C. (2009). The art of being human: The humanities as a technique for living. New York: Pearson Custom Publishing.
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