Quotes About Nature

You humans make fine fabric and music, eh, but you're lacking in natural philosophy. Everything is made of other, tiny things, and we make some of the smallest do the work for us by bothering them with magnetth.

There's a verse in Proverbs that speaks to me. "There are three things which are too wonderful for me, four which I do not understand. The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid." The

Caught in a lip-lock that I thought might require the expertise of the mountain rescue team to break apart'.

And then the squirrel ran up my legs searching for nuts.' I nearly spewed my coffee and my eyes went wide as I jerked my head around to stare at Daniel. He gave me a wry grin and chuckled. 'I thought that would get your attention.

You need fresh air," he said. "We're outside," I pointed out. "It doesn't get any fresher than that.

The sycamore trees that surround our house sway as the wind pushes in an oncoming storm now gathering off the coast.

Dragonflies worked as sentries from the car to the front porch. Gray had never seen so many in her life.

Ash tree" in Spanish, Fresno is the closest major city to Yosemite National Park.

I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.

P 271 There's a little songbird eaten whole, bones and everything, by French aristocrats. Illegal, and, by custom, enjoyed with a cloth over the face and head, like an executioners's hood. Maybe what we lack is tradition and elegance in our relentless destruction of nature

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

An animal that doesn't talk -- what a concept," Adriane remarked.

A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.

How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.

The park admits the wind, the petals lift and scatter like versions of myself I was on the verge of becoming; and ten years on and ten blocks down I still can't tell whether this dispersal resembles a fist unclenching or waving goodbye.

Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve; Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit

Do you believe in God, Martin?' And he answered, 'Yes, because of His trees. Don't you?' 'I'm not sure...' 'Oh, my poor, blind Stephen! Look again, go on looking until you do believe.

She loved deeply, far more deeply than many a one who could fearlessly proclaim himself a lover. Since this is a hard and sad truth for the telling; those whom nature has sacrificed to her ends--her mysterious ends that often lie hidden--are sometimes endowed with a vast will to loving, with an endless capacity for suffering also, which must go hand in hand with their love.

Reuben grinned and chewed more vigorously than ever; he had the measure of his master's foot to a nicety. The sun felt actually hot, and Hilary, in his heavy tweeds, began to be less inclined for the long walk over stubbly fields. His eye roved for a suitable place to rest, which he finally discovered under a hedge.

Have you ever thought about the enormous courage of trees? I have, and it seems to me amazing, The Lord dumps them down and they just gotta stick it, no matter what happens.

And hearing him, Stephen found herself thinking that all men had something simple about them; something that took pleasure in the things that were blameless, that longed, as it were, to contact Nature.

The jacaranda, for instance, is beautiful but not serious.

Proscenium of nearly identical mountain ridges, arched out and downward, one 'after' another, to the valley floor: curtains tied back, a gesture

Perfect molecules of plastic sheet the seas.