Quotes About Nature

Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.

There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.

Living a simpler life has turned out to be one of the keys to being more awake and healthy.

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

Please keep off the grass.

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet.

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.

Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

Nothing gold can stay.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.