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Quotes About Nature

Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.
~ L. M. K. Boelter
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
~ L. M. Montgomery
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
~ L. Wolfe Gilbert
My nature is to be cheerful and my foolish self is very likely to be led astray by happy, frivolous things, things of the moment, and I just can't help it, Jaimy, I can't. There is a wildness in me that can't be denied. I
~ L.A. Meyer
I seek the face of God in the sky and in the waves of the ocean, not in some book or on my knees in some dusty church. "I
~ L.A. Meyer
his rather jolly nature, which seems to find many things of this world not only interesting but also amusing. Whatever
~ L.A. Meyer
the many hours Amy and I spent there, she sitting on the bank reading from a book of poems or some dreary political stuff, me with my skirt off and my drawers rolled up, wading in the water. Me turning over stones to see what was under them, she begging me not to eat what I found. The scavenging orphan in me does die hard, I must admit, and I know that sometimes I am a scandal to other, more well-bred people—in this and other ways. "All
~ L.A. Meyer
Yet the land we are to possess is a land of valleys and hills. It is not all flat or downhill. If life were always smooth and level, the boring sameness would weigh us down. We need the valleys and the hills. The hills collect the rain for hundreds of fruitful valleys. And so it is with us!
~ L.B. Cowman
The beauties of nature come after the storm. The rugged beauty of the mountain is born in a storm, and the heroes of life are the storm-swept and battle-scarred.
~ L.B. Cowman
Great things are done when man and mountains meet, These are not done by walking down the street.
~ L.B.E. Cowman
Struck dumb by love among the walruses And whales, the off-white polar bear with stuffing Missing, the mastodons like muddy buses, I sniff the mothproof air and lack for nothing.
~ L.E. Sissman
When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.
~ L.J. Smith
Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring… my desire.
~ L.J. Smith
But where Katherine was a white kitten, Elena was a white tigress.
~ L.J. Smith
Wherever her feet pass, white flowers part the grass.
~ L.J. Smith
They blossom ever where you tread... Wild roses bloody red.
~ L.J. Smith
Aphrodite just kept smiling. Because she was just doing what a goddess does-the same way that a tornado rips houses apart or a fire burns down a forest.
~ L.J. Smith
He was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator's heartbeat
~ L.J. Smith
Why not fulfill his nature? Since he could not change it, he might as well revel in it.
~ L.J. Smith
Bud and blossom, leaf and tree, Find him, bind him, now to me, Shoot and seedling, root and bough, Threads of love entwine us now.
~ L.J. Smith
The sun was beginning to sink into the horizon, and the smell of honeysuckle and jasmine hung heavily in the air. I glanced up at Veritas as I strode up the hill. Blooming
~ L.J. Smith
It was, after all, the natural order of things. Animals killed weaker animals. Humans killed animals. I killed humans. Every species had their foe. I shuddered to think what monster was powerful enough to hunt me.
~ L.J. Smith
There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
~ L.M. Boyd
Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
~ L.M. Montgomery