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Quotes About Nature

She is violent only when violence is acted upon her first. When shown kindness, she is kind. That is the way of animals and humans alike.
~ Danielle Trussoni
Cryptozoologists estimate that fifteen to twenty percent of the animals in the world are unknown to us. There is so much in nature we haven't seen yet.
~ Danielle Trussoni
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
~ Danish Proverb
Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.
~ Danish Proverb
Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
~ Danish Proverb
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
~ Danish Proverb
Birds sing, wolves howl, crickets chirp. But why? Money? Fame? Record contracts? Endorsements? What's it all for? They do it because they're alive. They do it because life is about making things.
~ Danny Gregory
the golden hour--that hour of sunshine where the world looks the way it looks in your dreams.
~ Danny Wallace
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
~ Dante Alighieri
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
One thing then learned remains to me—The woodspurge has a cup of three.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ye who have passed Death's haggard hills; and ye Whom trees that knew your sires shall cease to know And still stand silent:--is it all a show,-- A wisp that laughs upon the wall?
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
El hecho de que las medusas hayan sobrevivido seiscientos cincuenta años sin cerebro, es una gran noticia para algunos varones, incluyendo a tu novio. —¡Ay! No seas tan malo.
~ Dante Gebel
I would like to lose All awareness Of my being To blend Into nature And become a leaf A cloud Or the yellow of the rainbow
~ Dany Laferrière
If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.
~ Dar Williams
The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the fields
~ Dar Williams
Nature is most beautiful in its movement: wind, water, the sinking sun.
~ Darcey Steinke
birdish cottages on stilts
~ Darcey Steinke
the outer banks swing out from the coast of North Carolina like the bony curve of a woman's hip
~ Darcey Steinke
The sky was overladen with stars. If you looked closely there were stars in the grass as well--dew turned to ice on the tips of grass blades.
~ D'Arcy McNickle
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.
~ D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Everything is what it is because it got that way.
~ D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Brontola il vento al mio richiamo alla finestra, ma tu fingi raffiche di mitra. Sullo spiovuto selciato della strada si vedranno solo ortiche e stelle.
~ Dario Bellezza