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Quotes About Nature

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.
~ Sylvia Earle
Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
~ T. S. Eliot
Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.
~ Theodore Roethke
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart
~ Thomas Kinkade
Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.
~ Thomas Muster
Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.
~ Tim Dorsey
I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.
~ Trina
Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
~ Wangari Maathai
Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law
~ David Clement-Davies, Fell
I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and squirrels. I hear the life of the trees this wood came from.
~ Garth Stein, A Sudden Light
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
~ Agatha Christie
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
~ Alexander Pope
Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
~ Bill Mollison
Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.
~ Robert Holdstock
On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.
~ Roger Ebert
What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.
~ Saint Augustine
As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living images of graceful possibility dwindle.
~ Stephanie Mills
The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.
~ Terence McKenna
Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.
~ Voltaire
Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.
~ Wendell Berry
I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.
~ Jeff Daniels