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Quotes About Nature

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.
~ Dixie Lee Ray
Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.
~ Elizabeth Smart
Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.
~ Eric Lander
Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you...
~ Erwin Schrodinger
Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
~ Alice Walker
Life in us is like the water in a river.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.
~ Dick Sharpies
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
~ Michael Shermer
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
~ Walter Pater
Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life is to evolve towards beauty.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Where all life dies death lives.
~ John Milton
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
~ Lynda Barry
Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow
~ Paulo Coelho
The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
~ Yoshida Kenko
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.
~ Gaylord Nelson
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
~ Georg Brandes
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.
~ George Eliot
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
~ George Santayana