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Quotes About Nature

Them cool green leaves Is waitin' to shelter me O, little tree!
~ Langston Hughes
I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
~ Langston Hughes
Love is a naked shadow On a gnarled and naked tree
~ Langston Hughes
Magnolia Flowers The quiet fading out of life In a corner full of ugliness.
~ Langston Hughes
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
~ Langston Hughes
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.
~ Langston Hughes
Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.
~ Langston Hughes
The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.
~ Langston Hughes
Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands and the mouth.
~ Lanza Del Vasto
He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.
~ Lao Tzu
He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.
~ Lao Tzu
The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.
~ Lao Tzu
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
~ Lao Tzu
Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.Reversion is the action of Tao.Weakness is the function of Tao.All things in the world come from being.And being comes from non-being.
~ Lao Tzu
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~ Lao Tzu
He who possesses virtue in abundanceMay be compared to an infant.
~ Lao Tzu
Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.
~ Lao Tzu
Nature is not human hearted.
~ Lao Tzu
Heaven and Earth are not humane.They regard all things as straw dogs.
~ Lao Tzu
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
~ Lao Tzu
All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
~ Lao Tzu
The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.
~ Lao Tzu
Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion
~ Lao-Tzu
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
~ Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu