Quotes About Nature

There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.

California's redwood forests are famous for being home to the tallest living things on the planet, but there's much more to these extraordinary woodlands than the size of the trees. At their best, redwood forests are suffused with a sense of openness and serenity. Sun-dappled, elegantly fluted tree trunks shoot straight as an arrow into the sky, while below are burbling streams, spectacular fallen trunks, and a lush accumulation of ferns, sorrel, moss, and lichen.

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

Under every full moon are lovers in love, and under every bright sun two friends smile as one.

Traveler: "God has been mighty good to your fields, Mr. Farmer." Farmer: "You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn't around."

Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? You hadn't realized it. And you notice that the sun has set already, the day gone before you knew it — and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape. That's retirement.

God loves an idle rainbow, No less than labouring seas.

Let the rose be neighbour with the thorn.

Tho' I fancy'd the rose, yet I dreaded the thorn.

He who would gather roses must not fear thorns.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

He that plants thorns shall not gather roses.

From the thorn bush comes the rose.

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.

The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns.

No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud...

I'm not trying to be sarcastic — it just comes naturally.

Nature grows beautiful new life over old scars.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of Nature.

Amœbas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart, And started Sex. And Sex has thrilled the earth From then to this, Producing grief and mirth And pain and bliss. Through Sex the seedling wakes To cleave the ground; 'Tis really Sex that makes The world go round...

God did not give wings to scorpions.

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

There's no one season such delight can bring As summer, autumn, winter, and the spring.

Virtually every process is best carried out at one time or other of the year and that is not something to take lightly... There is much more to seasonality, though, than breeding or migration. Virtually every internal process alters... We humans were clearly highly seasonal beasts until the coming of electric light but traces remain.