Quotes About Nature

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.

The finer impulse of our nature.

Tears are Summer showers to the soul.

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.

I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old church in the country.

No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.

No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

June's too soon, July's too late - for summer.

April, Comes like an idiot, babbling, and strewing flowers.

Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter's day.

Autumn is the bite of a harvest apple.

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.