Quotes About Nature

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Such stuff the world is made of.

Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Age 45. — Thrice fifteen summers have their foliage cast...

Bless your eyes of bonny blue...

—So it is... you muse upon the time... when the brooks shall water your meadows, and come laughing down your pasture lands; —when the clouds shall shed their spring fragrance upon your lawns, and the daisies bless your paths.

Paradise — I see flowers from the cottage where I lie.

"There's no such thing as death" — In nature, nothing dies; From each sad remnant of decay Some forms of life arise. The faded leaf that falls All sere and brown to earth, Ere long will mingle with the shapes That give the floweret birth.

It is on the mango tree full of fruits that they throw stones.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

It just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants.

Every flower must grow through dirt.

She said that people complain when there is too much sun and it gets unbearably hot, and also when it rains too much or when it is cold. But, she said, no one grumbles when the moon shines. Everyone becomes happy and appreciates the moon in their own special way.

A mountaineer's house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

Now, to demonstrate the grandeur of modern progress, we have a poor, miserable, disconnected populace with nothing but American films, politics, and empty vacations to satisfy the ever-present human need of living in harmony with the universal spiritual forces underlying nature and all phenomena.

A rock was sticking out of the water, jagged and pointed, covered with moss--a remnant of the Ice Age. It had withstood the rains, the snows, the frost, the heat. It was afraid of no one. It did not need redemption, it had already been redeemed.

For as long as there are men and women, some things in life will best be done arm in arm, and strolling in a flower garden is one.

What scrunched under our overshoes as we trudged through the stubble of the grainfield was the nasty mix of moistureless snow and windblown dirt that we called "snirt.

Anyone who grows up around farm animals cannot side with a wolf in the long clash of things. But you can be against tormenting any creature.

Tako se na kapiji, izme?u neba, reke i brda, naraštaj za naraštajem u?io da ne žali preko mere ono što mutna voda odnese. Tu je u njih ulazila nesvesna filozofija kasabe: da je život neshvatljivo ?udo, jer se neprestano troši i osipa, a ipak traje i stoji ?vrsto kao na Drini ?uprija.

Po tom višku koji nosi svako umetni?ko delo kao neki trag tajanstvene saradnje izme?u prirode i umetnika, vidi se demonsko poreklo umetnosti. Postoji legenda da ?e Antihrist, kada se bude pojavio na zemlji, stvarati sve što je i Bog stvorio, samo sa ve?om veštinom i sa više savršenstva [...] Možda je umetnik prete?a Antihrista. Možda se hiljade i hiljade nas igramo Antihrista, kao što se deca, usred mira, igraju rata.

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