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Quotes About Life

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?
~ Margaret Murie
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living
~ Henri Poincare
The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
~ John Burroughs
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.
~ John Muir
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
~ John Muir
Earth laughs in flowers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.
~ Percival Lowell
To be awake is to be alive.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
~ Robert Fulghum
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.
~ Philip James Bailey
When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.
~ James Weldon Johnson
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
~ Victor Hugo
Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations.
~ Amit Ray
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.
~ Jean Houston
The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.
~ Doreen Valiente
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
~ Arthur Erickson
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
~ Herman Melville
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.
~ John Stuart Blackie
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
~ Vaclav Smil
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
~ Robert Burns
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge