Quotes About Nature

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

I was thinking about a lot of things at that moment, really, and I mean a lot of things. Like the way squirrels in my front yard won't play with me. But more serious stuff too.

I also have a hammock I spend a lot of time in - mostly just because hammocks are awesome and people don't have to explain why they have them.

Amar es, sin duda, la mejor manera de vivir, es guardar la luna llena en el estanque del jardín de tu corazón e ir por la vida dejando huellas de luz.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

All molecules pulse with vibrations. They shimmer and wiggle and sing with the vibrations of the electron strings that hold them together, which means molecules are, oddly enough, a sort of musical instrument.

They exit one by one, or sometimes two by two. You scatter pieces of them on the snow in the woods and then run away as fast as you can, and then you turn and run back towards them, once they're beyond your reach.

Literature, well done, illustrates the reality of human nature.

Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.

Also attending Saturday's festivities were Ali MacGraw`s son, filmmaker Josh Evans, and his wife, actress Charis Michelsen-Evans. "I got teary-eyed," Charis says about touring the sanctuary. "To see all the animals so happy, well, it just touches my heart." (Interview at Best Friends animal sanctuary) [2008]

Ostriches like shiny things like coins and eyeballs.

She'd once read that nature was a glove on the hand of God, and she knew she'd read Truth.

The ninth gift is Reverence. May you appreciate the wonder that you are and the miracle of all creation.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

One of the things that makes you feel good is to get out into nature—go walking, go hiking, go swimming in the ocean, or wherever you live, in a river or a lake, experience the beauty of America, experience how America is such a sacred place. Everywhere you go in this land, our people have been there and they have said, "This place is sacred.

Clear your mind of all dread and suspicion; this is the first step in the wilderness life. Think not the water will drown you, or that anything in the water or on land will bite or poison you. Have confidence in nature and yourself. Perhaps three-fourths of your physical failures are due to lack of nerve and will-power. It

Either God is in the whole of Nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.

A woman is natural: that is to say, abominable.

When an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.

Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.