Quotes About Nature

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,This is the common air that bathes the globe.

You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness—perhaps ignorance, credulity—helps your enjoyment of these things, and of the sentiment of feather'd, wooded, river, or marine Nature generally.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud,These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.

The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river.

This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Torn from its branch, the moon waned for a couple of weeks.

The Arctic expresses the sum of all wisdom: Silence.

The last we saw of them was when they kissed, then beautifully naked walked as if into a sea of bright blue water --- leaving their bodies like old clothes upon the shore.

wind is blowing. It may be a breeze that cools and comforts. It may be a gust

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.

Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

There was still an hour or two of daylight - even though clouds admitted only a greyish light upon the world, and his Uncle Timothy's house was by nature friendly to gloom. ("Out Of The Deep")

The Black was looking out on the open sea; his ears pricked forward, his thin-skinned nostrils quivering, his black mane flowing like windswept flame. Alec could not turn his eyes away; he could not believe such a perfect creature existed.

Don't hurry, don't worry. You're here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.

her mouth was a cruel flower. "Hair

A system must necessarily be based on premises that by its very nature it cannot question.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

Valentin Rasputin

The birds on the branches, the lilies in the field, the deer in the forest, the fishes in the sea, countless hosts of happy men, exultantly proclaim: God is love. But underneath all these sopranos, supporting them as it were, as the bass part does, is audible the de profundis which issues from the sacrificed one: God is love.

Der Natur sind die Tragödien, die sich in ihr abspielen, egal. Noch kein Galgenbaum hat sich darüber aufgeregt, daß Unschuldige an ihm aufgeknüpft wurden. Kein Grashalm eines Schlachtfeldes trauert den Gefallenen nach.