Quotes About Nature

We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.

There is something ominous about a swift river, and something thrilling about a river of any kind. The nearest upstream bend is a gate out of mystery, the nearest downstream bend a door to further mystery.

We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

LightIs the lion that comes down to drink.

The natives of the rain are rainy men.

We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.

The plum survives its poems.

He is like a manIn the body of a violent beast.Its muscles are his own…The lion sleeps in the sun.Its nose is on its paws.It can kill a man.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

And still the grossest iridescence of oceanHowls hoo and rises and howls hoo and falls.

The world is a force, not a presence.

Green crammers of the green fruits of the world.

Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs.

Booming and booming of the new-come bee.

There it was, word for word,The poem that took the place of a mountain.

I placed a jar in Tennessee,And round it was, upon a hill.It made the slovenly wildernessSurround that hill.

And as he came he saw that it was spring,A time abhorrent to the nihilistOr searcher for the fecund minimum.

His self and the sun were oneAnd his poems, although makings of his self,Were no less makings of the sun.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill;

Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.