Quotes About Nature

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

All God's works are still in a sense symbols of God. Do we not, as I urged, still account it a merit to recognize a certain inexhaustible significance, "poetic beauty" as we name it, in all natural objects whatsoever?

What we call pure or impure, is not with her the final question. Not how much chaff is in you; but whether you have any wheat. Pure? I might say to many a man: Yes, you are pure; pure enough; but you are chaff,—insincere hypothesis, hearsay, formality; you never were in contact with the great heart of the Universe at all; you are properly neither pure nor impure; you are nothing, Nature has no business with you.

We called Dante the melodious Priest of Middle-Age Catholicism. May we not call Shakespeare the still more melodious Priest of a true Catholicism, the 'Universal Church' of the Future and of all times? No narrow superstition, harsh asceticism, intolerance, fanatical fierceness or perversion: a Revelation, so far as it goes, that such a thousandfold hidden beauty and divineness dwells in all Nature; which let all men worship as they can!

To the wisest of them, what we must call the wisest, man is properly an Accident under the sky.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.

Mie love ys dedde,Gon to hys death-bedde,Al under the wyllowe-tree.

Because of barriers of knowledge, barriers of state, and barriers of action, seeing your own buddha nature is like seeing color at night.

The Way returns the carved and the polished to simplicity.

The Buddha is like space, with no inherent nature; appearing in the world to benefit the living, his features and refinements are like reflections.

68. ?And your Lord inspired the bee, "Make your houses in the mountains, in the trees, and in the buildings they construct: 69. ?"then eat from all the fruits, gently walking the pathways of your Lord." From within them exudes a drink of various colors, in it healing for humankind. Surely in that is a sign for people who reflect.

How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die.

Over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.

Those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature have never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep-toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the Creator, they are His undefiled works; and the mind is cast into contemplation of eternal things.

Thus for some 4,400 years the people living in closest association with honeybees have focused on devising housing arrangements for bees that serve human purposes and have largely ignored what the bees' themselves seek in a home.

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

Wonder at reality demands the humility to sit at the foot of a dandelion. The proud are so full of themselves that there is little room to marvel at anything else.

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

Any time you're near a kangaroo, it's a close call.

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

The country life near Manchester I really love.

I feel best in nature or near nature.

Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house.