Quotes About Nature

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Weather is so nineteenth-century in its effects

He took a deep drag and looked up into the cold night sky and saw a sea of stars above him. He knew nothing about constellations or astronomy, but he enjoyed the beautiful sight. In Paris, he had never even noticed the night sky, but out in the country it was immense, almost drawing you up into the heavens. One couldn't help but be awed by the sight. As he smoked, he continued to stare at the sky, marveling at the vast number and configurations of stars.

Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.

So they turned towards the hills, which were blue and purple in the setting sun--a shepherd did he but know it, lives in halls more splendid than a king's....

When I tell people about the blooms, about how they open around nine and close before sunrise and do this just for one night, they always ask, Is that all? Yes. That's all.

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

I always remind myself of all the things I should note if I am to be a good person, one sound and balanced. One night . . . I reminded myself that 22 species of flowers were blooming in my backyard. . . . that fact helped a great deal.

The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust hath the just's umbrella.

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

This scene is adapted to my temper. Its mountainous asperities supply me with images of desolation and seclusion, and its headlong streams lull me into temporary forgetfulness of mankind.

I was given the job of milking the cows, finally, and it got me up earlier than anybody. But it was kind of nice, pulling at those cows' tits.

In other words, the death to sin of Romans 6 is a separation from the power of the sin nature to cause the believer to continue in sin. It

The smiling daughter of the storm.

I hear them call, 'See where the stream-path is! Crossing is not as hard as you think.' I had not thought it would be like this.

I love rain because tears can not be seen in rain.

procreation is nature's principal occupation, and every man, whether he be young or old, when meeting every woman measures the potentiality of sex between them.

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

Man's habits change more rapidly than his instincts.

I was a dreamer by nature. I was a drunkard as a result of castrated dreams.

I sometimes think that the Russian character is the end of kindness, you know? The end of everything that is nice and good in this world.

The season has shed its mantle of wind and chill and rain.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!