Quotes About Nature

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

As a child, I was abandoned in a story made of trees. Here's the small gasp of this clearing come "upon" "again

May my existence change the world no more nor less than the gusting of wind or the proud growth of trees

The moon was just starting to rise above the Tetons, shining

Butterflies are symbols of hope. They land beside us, like sunbeams, and belong to us for a moment, but then they fly away. And while we wish they might have stayed longer to share their beauty, we feel blessed for having s-seen them.

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

W]e are all savages under the cloak that civilization fashions for us.

From somewhere in the blue vault of heaven overhead came the joyous trilling of a lark, from below the silken rustling of the tideless sea.

I dare say that we are all savages under the cloak that civilization fashions for us.

I'm willing to keep an open mind about the existence of God or whether or not Joye's Ulysses is a great novel, but I have no doubt that one way or another child molesters are nurtured, not born.

Re: Central Park But the height proved the awesome truth that the park was made by man: nature re-created where it had been killed.

The natural world is a world of war; the natural man is a warrior; the natural law is tooth and claw. All else is error. A condition of combat everywhere exists. We are born into perpetual conflict. It is our inheritance, even as it was the heritage of previous generations.

In actual operation Nature is cruel and merciless to men, as to all other beings. Let a tribe of human animals live a rational life, Nature will smile upon them and their posterity; but let them attempt to organize an unnatural mode of existence an equality elysium, and they will be punished even to the point of extermination.

For strife and struggle Man is born; But sheep and lambs Are always shorn.

God went forth to create the world, and he took his dog with him. - Kato Indian creation story

The life circle, no different than for us. Sometimes it's brutal and intense, but without it there would be no life.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

We're never single-minded, unperplexed, like migratory birds.

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

satirical against those who called him an escapist for creating the fantastic world of Middle-earth: "The notion that motor-cars are more `alive' than, say, centaurs or dragons is curious; that they are more `real' than, say, horses is pathetically absurd. How real, how startlingly alive is a factory chimney compared with an elm-tree: poor obsolete thing, insubstantial dream of an escapist!" (MC, 149).

For the very nature of the product designer's role in industry tends to militate against his effectiveness. He is schooled--and presumably motivated--to design things for people; but he is retained to design things for the market.

Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your compactness that of the forest.

We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.

Springtime and I wish I knew you