Quotes About Nature

There was never a Queen like Balkis From here to the wide world's end; But Balkis talked to a butterfly As you, would talk to a friend. There was never a king like Solomon, Not since the world began; But Solomon talked to a butterfly As a man would talk to a man. She was a queen of Sabea -- And he was Asia's Lord -- But they both of 'em talked to butterflies When they took their walks abroad

Who goes to the hills, goes to his mother.

Limmershin is a very odd little bird, but he knows how to tell the truth.

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

Lie still, little frog. O though Mowgli--for Mowgli the Frog I will call thee--the time will come when thought wilt hunt Shere Khan as he has hunted thee.

But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same; And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail, The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.

That was true, and dirt, earth, has power, an astonishing power of life, of creating and sweetening; it can take anything, a body, an old tin, decay, rust, corruption, filth, and turn it into itself, and slowly make it life, green blades of grass and weeds.

The greengages had a pale blue bloom, especially in the shade, but in the sun the flesh showed amber through the clear green skin; if it were cracked the juice was doubly warm and sweet.

The human heart Is unknowable. But in my birthplace The flowers still smell The same as always.

You are born, you are a he or a she, and you live until you die... Willy-nilly.

Kagura, are you free now..? Did you ever... Become the wind?- Kanna

Flowers wither and lose their color, much as I reflect in vain time lost to the long rain.- Kanna

I am the wind...The free wind...- Kagura

It's a landscape that controls you, sits you down and says, Shut up, pal, I'm in charge here.

I've seen a film in which Dr Lorenz pointed out the difference between two colonies of cattle egrets, one free and one caged. The free ones, who had to provide for themselves, were monogamous and energetic and kept their numbers within ecologically reasonable limits. The captive egrets were promiscuous, idle, overbreeding and presumably going to hell fast.

Seeds blow in the wind and what is earf but a deadness with life growing out of it?

How do the turtles find Ascension Island? There are sharks in the water too. Some of the turtles get eaten by sharks. Do the turtles know about sharks? How do they not think about the sharks when they're swimming that 1,400 miles? Green turtles must have the kind of mind that doesn't think about sharks unless a shark is there. That must be how it is with them. I can't believe they'd swim 1,400 miles thinking about sharks.

Time only changes the outside of things. It scars the rocks and snarls the trees, but the heart inside remains the same." —Charles M. Russell

Sparrows and pigeons and a blackbird were celebrating the morning in the courtyard.

quote from A. W. Tozer's The Pursuit of God: God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful, that He can without anything other than Himself meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

Jiko: Surfer, wave, same thing. That's just stupid, I said. A surfer's a person. A wave is a wave. How can they be the same? Jiko looked out across the ocean to where the water met the sky. A wave is born from deep conditions of the ocean. A person is born from deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and rolls along like a wave, until it is time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.

Old Jiko is supercareful with her time. She does everything really really slowly, even when she's just sitting on the veranda, looking out at the dragonflies spinning lazily around the garden pond. She says that she does everything really really slowly in order to spread time out so that she'll have more of it and live longer, and then she laughs so that you know she is telling you a joke.

I helped Jiko to her feet and we walked back to the bus stop together, holding hands again. I was still thinking about what she said about waves, and it made me sad because I knew that her little wave was not going to last and soon she would join the sea again, and even though I know you can't hold on to water , still I gripped her fingers a little more tightly to keep her from leaking away.

I believe that in the deepest places in their hearts, people are violent and take pleasure in hurting each other.