Quotes About Nature

Systems die; instincts remain.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good. The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone In the ring of this world, the most precious stone.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

Gin a body meets a body Comin' through the rye. Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?

See! the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea: - What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?

The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

All things obey fixed laws.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

The loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough, and stands about the woodland ride wearing white for Eastertide.

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

The most delightful advantage of being bald one can hear the snowflakes.

Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps.