Quotes About Nature

What unsolved mysteries, what unwritten tragedies, what romance, what treasure of gold that vast North must hold! For a thousand, perhaps a million centuries, it had lain thus undisturbed in the embrace of nature; few white men had broken its solitudes, and the wild things still lived there as they had lived in the winters of ages and ages ago.

So they turned into the north, not knowing that nature had already schemed that they four – the dog, wolf, otter and beaver – should soon be engaged in one of those merciless struggles of the wild which keep animal life down to the survival of the fittest, and whose tragic histories are kept secret under the stars and the moon and the wind that tell no tales.

So the leaves were falling slowly in the cool breezes, and of those left on the trees few were green. Most were brown and red and gold, and when they piled up on the ground and were rained on, they smelled awfully good, although it was a sort of lonesome, musty smell.

Nature does not change; it has no inside or outside. It is therefore not possible to travel through it. All travel is therefore change within the traveler, and it is for that reason that travelers are always somewhere else. To travel is to grow.

Pick a tree. I'll carve our initials into it. -Fang

Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.

Angel? I said. Baby penguins eat a regurgitated mixture of partially digested fish, krill, and an oily substance form their fathers' stomachs. Are you willing to eat a bunch of raw fish and krill, and then barf it back up into a baby penguin's cute, cheeping mouth? Like, every hour? Sometimes my crushing logic astounds even me.

It's the ciiiiiiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiiife! Iggy sang

The world was becoming a zoo, without cages.

Humans were the weakest species. Maybe that was why they could be the meanest animals.

Sheep!" Angel cried, catching sight of some fluffy brown wool. "Anne is quite the animal lover," Fang said to me as we followed Angel. "Horses, sheep, goats. Chickens. Pigs." "Yeah," I said. "I wonder who's for dinner?" He flashed one of his rare smiles at me, and it was like the sun coming out. I felt my cheeks get hot and strode on ahead.

But remember that you have to move on, somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.

Bad stuff does happen sometimes, always remember that but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky or the ocean and you move the hell on.

I put flower buds in a lot of little bottles around the house so I can see the blossoms open everywhere.

I wanted an endless summer with you. But then darkness always comes doesn't it? Just a fact of life, i guess

It wasn't because the lions were particularly hungry. The humans had been nothing compared to the eighteen-hundred-pound Cape buffalo, the pride's more typical prey. The cars had been like boxes full of snacks.

but people forget. Always. It's got to be one of the fundamental laws of the universe.

physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky, so they'll never know when one of their pals is flying.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.

Death is nature's way of saying "howdy." Statues

He's basically putting on a private doo-wop show for the seagulls. Then he stops, spreads out his arms, and adds in the harmony: "In the still of the ni-i-i-ight!

Call me crazy, but there's just something cheering about seeing huge raptors tear into Eraser flesh.

He was already a sociopath, and he was just out of kinder-garten. I didn't think much of it at the time. It was the family way.

Anne is quite the animal lover," Fang said to me as we followed Angel. "Horses, sheep, goats. Chickens. Pigs." "Yeah," I said. "I wonder who's for dinner?