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Quotes About Nature

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
~ Hans Arp
There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.
~ Merle Haggard
The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.
~ John Denver
War is the mother of everything.
~ Heraclitus
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
~ Henry Cantwell Wallace
Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.
~ Joseph Pilates
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
~ Dick Gregory
Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
~ Francis of Assisi
The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?
~ Alice B. Toklas
My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.
~ Rene Auberjonois
The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
~ T. D. Jakes
The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.
~ Rene Dubos
The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.
~ W. H. Auden
A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
~ Angela Carter, Wise Children
Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired
~ Louise Gluck
I really doubt whether evolution ever works, how then come Mothers have only two hands
~ Milton Berle
If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk.
~ Terry Jones
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
~ Rachel Carson
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
~ Alex Trebek
My mother, who hates thunderstorms, Holds up each summer day and shakes It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.
~ Philip Larkin
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
~ Anne Sexton