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Quotes About Nature

i decapitated dandelions all morning, leaving carnage and death strewn into my path.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.
~ William Shakespeare
In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.
~ Ruth Park
I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?
~ Emily Carr
I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.
~ Landon Donovan
I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the walk of the morning
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
I slumbered spring's morning and missed the dawn from everywhere, I heard the cry of birds. That night the sound of wind and rain came. Who knows how many petals had fallen?
~ Meng Haoran
It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
This early piece of the morning is mine.
~ Wallace Stegner
By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.
~ Martha Ostenso
And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning.
~ Theodore Roethke
Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach. It was very good -- Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music.
~ John Steinbeck
The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.
~ James Salter
My studio is right on the ocean, and the sun rises right in my eyes every morning, and the energy of the sea is right there.
~ Suzanne Ciani
There are some mornings when the sky looks like a road.
~ Joanna Newsom
In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.
~ Robert Browning
Awake thee, my Lady-Love! Wake thee, and rise! The sun through the bower peeps Into thine eyes.
~ George Darley
Gardeners in regions with very long summer days have a great opportunity, and should use more of the cool colors that literally glow in the low light of morning and evening.
~ Janet Macunovich
This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.
~ Jimi Hendrix
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
~ John Dryden