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Quotes About Nature

I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.
~ Charles Lamb
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
~ Alan Paton
For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.
~ John Cage
Flowers are my music.
~ Thomas Walker Arnold
He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.
~ Willis Gaylord Clark
four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.
~ Sidney Lanier
Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.
~ John Gay
And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
A bird, music and food -desert island items
~ Michael Johnson
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.
~ Pablo Casals
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
~ John Mayer
Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.
~ Josh Billings
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.
~ John Updike
Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
~ LaToya Jackson
What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.
~ Jewel
If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.
~ Frank Bolles
While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
~ John Ruskin
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
~ Hippocrates
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.
~ Kate Chopin
I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.
~ Ernest Shackleton
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.
~ Antonio Gaudi