Quotes About Nature

Cleansed and newly born, we step from the shower and wrap ourselves in a towel. Mother Earth waits with open arms.

Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet...Every step makes a flower bloom.

Thus, when we look out at the world, we are nature gazing upon itself.

Old and ruined, all rotted and broken upThese plum trees function gorgeouslyA few days every yearIn a way nobody else does.

The idyll ended, as idylls must.

Instead of extinguishing in the heart of men the essential and natural love for themselves, morality should use it to show them the interest in being good, human, sociable, and trustworthy: far from wanting to destroy the passions inherent in his nature, morality will lead him to virtue, without which no man on earth can ever enjoy true happiness.

There is a little good in the worst of us and a little bad in the best of us and it ill behoves any of us to criticize the rest of us.

Have you noticed how the most beautiful landscapes lose their brilliance as soon as our thoughts prevent us from seeing them properly?

When I see a dead bird," Hans Dorfer said to me, "and I pick it up in my hand, tears come into my eyes. I can't make them not come. Nothing can justify the death of a bird. But if my father croaked all of a sudden, right here, right next to me, I swear I'd dance around the table and buy you a drink. I swear.

when you live among the flowers, you don't think about the mud.

Je me suis installé dans le jardin. Comme le ciel n'est pas tout à fait noir, je vois des oiseaux traverser l'étendue grise-dessus des arbres, en un long vol, puissant et formidable, et il me semble les sentir glisser à la surface de mes yeux.

Desgarra de una vez como un trapo estas sombras, engañoso mendigo, cubierto con harapos, rondador de mortajas: es vergüenza fingir a distancia la muerte, basta con sentir miedo cuando esto sea. Ahora ponte una piel de sol y sal afuera igual que un cazador contra el viento, atraviesa como agua fresca y rápida tu vida".

Anyone who does not acknowledge the darkness in his nature will succumb to it...the lamp of conviction needs to be shaded by doubt, or it burns with a blinding light.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

It is only in winter that you can tell which trees are evergreen.

Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.

All I want is to stand in a field and to smell green, to taste air, to feel the earth want me, Without all this concrete hating me.

I learn more about God From weeds than from roses; Resilience springing Through the smallest chink of hope In the absolute of concrete....

The flower offered of itself And eloquently spoke Of Gods In languages of rainbows Perfumes And secret silence...

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

Moon balloon, Moon balloon, Tickle the tree. Four balloons, More balloons, Blossom for me.

the best things in life aren't things...

The whole place seemed wrapped in isolated autumn silence.