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Quotes About Nature

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
~ Robert Orben, unverified
Every day is Earth Day.
~ Author Unknown
Don't blow it — good planets are hard to find.
~ Author Unknown
God bless America. Let's save some of it.
~ Edward Abbey
Keep the air. Nature says, 'Thou shalt walk, skate, swim, ride, run.' When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the sole leather has passed into the fibre of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes & hats & clothes you have worn out. He is the richest man who pays the largest debt to his shoemaker.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Criminal Minds, Bad Moon on the Rise: "It is the very error of the moon; she comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad."
~ William Shakespeare
Criminal Minds, Bad Moon on the Rise: "Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the moon is full and bright."
~ Curt Siodmak
The deer isn't crossing the road. It's crossing the forest.
~ Author Unknown
In reality, plants are farming humans — giving us oxygen until we eventually decompose so they can consume us.
~ Author unknown, c. 2007
At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish.
~ Thai Proverb
A Short History of Medicine: 2000 B.C. – "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. – "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 A.D. – "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion." 1940 A.D. – "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill." 1985 A.D. – "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic." 2000 A.D. – "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."
~ Author Unknown
Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.
~ Author Unknown
Gardening is simply a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it
~ Author unknown, 1940s
God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.
~ Author Unknown
The garden is the poor man's apothecary.
~ German proverb
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
~ English proverb
In the garden I tend to drop my thoughts here and there. To the flowers I whisper the secrets I keep and the hopes I breathe. I know they are there to eavesdrop for the angels.
~ Dodinsky
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.
~ Russell Page, 1962
Anybody who wants to rule the world should try to rule a garden first.
~ Gardening Saying
When the soil disappears, the soul disappears.
~ Terri Guillemets
In my world, the closer I can get to the dirt and mud, the more alive I become.
~ Tom Brown, Jr.
With fronds like these, who needs anemones?
~ Frank Muir
Weed it and reap.
~ Gardening joke
I did nothing but comfort my plants, till now their small green cheeks are covered with smiles.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1865