Quotes About Nature

Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in order to stop the men. The fairies have left the men's reality in order to destroy it by making a new one.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

I am actually deeply grateful to that Korean mosquito.

The forest, far from the mundane and familiar world of the city, provides the appropriate setting for exceptional figures, both holy and mythic. Here, as in the world landscapes, figures and settings are truly matched; and as Reindert Falkenburg and myself have argued, the remoteness and grand scale of the forest or the earlier mountain wilderness signal the sanctity of or gravity of the human scene, however small in scale, which the discerning viewer must seek out and read as significant.

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

Nature is Satan's church.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

The trouble with the last snowfall of the season is that you can't be sure.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don't do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.

Femella can talk to creatures living and nonliving. She communes with the wee folk and the elfin. She knows the secrets of the untamed places. She believes, and because she believes, she can see.

When we see an old tree dying Slowly in the solemn wood, To decay the proud strength yielding That a century has stood, We look on, and sadly wonder At the mighty wreck of time, As its potent finger traces Sure destruction, line by line.

It is beautiful, all, in its going, This wonderful, sweet summer time; The leaflets glide down through the sunshine, As poets thoughts glide into rhyme. Sweet Summer looks over her shoulder, And whispers once more her farewells-- I wonder if Peace will come with her When her feet are again on the hills.

Icerideki her sey insan eliyle yapilmis, dunya disaridadir.

Dirmit perched on a huge rock and stared out at the sea, her eyes darting back and forth between the birds and the choppy water. First she took the sea into herself and then she let the sea take her into it. Her heart leapt into her mouth in elation as the sea rose inside her, and shivered in fear as the sea swallowed her up.

Ya?murlarla diplerinden ye?eren çal?lar?n kökleri o gece gövdelerini saran alevleri an?ms?yor mu? (s.155)

Before heaven and earth had taken form all was vague and amorphous. Therefore it was called the Great Beginning. The Great Beginning produced emptiness and emptiness produced the universe…. The combined essences of heaven and earth became the yin and yang, the concentrated essences of the yin and yang became the four seasons, and the scattered essences of the four seasons became the myriad creatures of the world.

A bird's song is beautiful, but if it never stops you feel like shooting it.

When I behold the ocean, I know that the world isn't just the grind of small tasks and small thoughts.