Quotes About Nature

salute the new sunset

Trees hang their branches

Hairy Mammal whaddya want

Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower?

Who can prophesy peace, or vow Futurity for any but armed insects

Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes! -and you, García Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?

Sheep look up revolving their jaws with empty eyes, pacific gods little gods that look at me curious & keep distant from human fame. Creatures revolving thru births and deaths, unharmed horses in a tiny gigantic vale in Wales. I am Bard to my own nature nameless as the very Vast I look at. Lay down on the warm hillside & groaned release from my body sighed thru my breast a great Ooh!

me being no one in the air nothing but clouds in the moonlight with humans fucking underneath… .

with your eyes/with your Death full of Flowers.

Heaven balanced on a grassblade

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

Everyman's an angel!

You were never no locomotive, Sunflower, you were a sunflower!

I told my daughter, the first time she fell in love, not to hold it too close. Think of yourself in a warm, summer pool, I told her, concentric circles rippling all around you. Golden beams of sunlight flooding your hair, striking your face. Inhale it. Breathe it. It will not leave you. If you place sunlight in your palms, it will turn to shadow. If you put fireflies in a jar, they will die. But if you love with wings on, you will always feel the exhilaration of being suspended in flight.

that's becuase you're my angel. Angel by name, angel by nature.

To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further.

Do we say to the wind, do you wish not to blow? Do we say to the thunder, would you rather be silent? No. We never think of these things.

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.

It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble.

EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know that the solitary life of many a plainsman had a tendency to develop eccentricities of conduct and character not always easily distinguishable from mental aberration. A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone, in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him.

there may be thunder in Europe but it is in America the lightning will fall