Quotes About Nature

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator.

It was a great moment on board when two large boobies were spotted above the horizon to westward

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Who scorns the simple things of life 

XV - Grandfather Frog Gives Up Hope XVI - The Merry Little Breezes Work Hard XVII - Striped Chipmunk Cuts the String XVIII - Grandfather Frog Hurries Away XIX - Grandfather Frog Jumps into More Trouble XX - Grandfather Frog Loses Heart XXI - The Merry Little Breezes Try to Comfort Grandfather Frog XXII - Grandfather Frog's Troubles Grow XXIII - The Dear Old Smiling Pool Once More I

Thornton W. Burgess

Thornton W. Burgess

BOWSER THE HOUND BY THORNTON W.

Thornton W. Burgess

trying to dig it larger. He knew there wasn't room enough for him to get between those roots.

Thornton W. Burgess

Thornton W. Burgess

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

He had lost that privilege of simple nature, the dissociation of love and pleasure. Pleasure was no longer as simple as eating; it was being complicated by love. Now was beginning that crazy loss of one's self, that neglect of everything but one's dramatic thoughts about the beloved, that feverish inner life all turning upon the [loved one].

We all have time to expend on what is essential to our nature.

And I, who claim to know so much more, isn't it possible that even I have missed the very spring within the spring? Some say that we will never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

That men aren't naturally good; but girls are.

It was Virgil's country and there was a wind that seemed to rise from the fields and descend upon us in a long Virgilian sigh, for the land that has inspired sentiment in the poet ultimately receives its sentiment from him.

Doña Clara was in the hands of malignant Nature who reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

she quoted the Spanish proverb, "The oak tree is in the acorn.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.