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Quotes About Nature

Wildness dances Inhibition stumbles
~ Terri Guillemets
All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?
~ Bernard Shaw
A nudist is simply a human being without artificial additives.
~ Author Unknown
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds...
~ Henry David Thoreau
I wandered lonely as a Cloud That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills...
~ William Wordsworth
He'd lie in fields, And through his fingers watch the changing clouds, Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.
~ Albert Smith, c. 1853
Clouds: Clusters of fluted sea-shells, Coral fringed, pearl centered; The glory of the setting sun caught in their fragile rims. Above clear-cut cliffs of alabaster whiteness Is the pale globe of the full moon; The changing clouds are bits of silvered fluff Adrift in a sea of intense blue.
~ Mary Brown Clement
When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839
Massive rolling waves of white-gray clouds chase the warm afternoon across a deep blue sky.
~ Terri Guillemets
When clouds appear like rocks and towers, the earth's refreshed by frequent showers.
~ Old weather saying
Deep black, brown, and gray cloud banks were shifting across the sky like tumbleweed across the plains.
~ Field and Stream, 1967
The English winter — ending in July, To recommence in August...
~ Lord Byron
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
~ Edward Abbey
And as passion is the foundation of courage, such warlike natures, whether of men or animals, will be full of passion.
~ Plato
A critic would sacrifice the entire rose to find fault with the thorn.
~ Terri Guillemets
The genius, even when he endeavours only to entertain with pleasing images of nature, or instruct by uncontested principles of science, yet suffers persecution from innumerable criticks, whose acrimony is excited merely by the pain of seeing others pleased, and of hearing applauses which another enjoys.
~ Samuel Johnson, 1751
The tear, down Childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry...
~ Walter Scott, Rokeby, 1813
Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal.
~ Yiddish saying
A millennium without air or light pollution made for pitch-black skies. The stars didn't just appear anymore. They exploded. Diamonds on black velvet. You couldn't tear your eyes away.
~ Blake Crouch, Wayward, 2019
...the smoke-smuggered stars...
~ Dr. Seuss, The Lorax, 1971
Must read, or sit in reverie and watch The changing color of the waves that break Upon the idle seashore of the mind!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I shall be in them.
~ Edvard Munch
life blooms right through death and they beautify each other
~ Terri Guillemets
When he died, Daddy went to the Wildlands for sure... He rode a tornado to get there.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018