Quotes About Nature

Discover wildlife: Be a teacher!

May brooks and trees and singing hills Join in the chorus too, And every gentle wind that blows Send happiness to you.

To the daisy — the poet's darling.

I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art – not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.

Makeup and clothing and all that should be a fun way to be creative and express yourself. Just like in nature, where birds have all the colors. But instead, it's all focused on the aesthetics of being attractive to men. Even if you really don't think it is that, that's what we're doing.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.

Out where the grass grows high, and the horned cattle dream away the lazy afternoons, and men still fear the powers and principalities of the air—out there between the corn-rows he held his old puissance to the end.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of Omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.

Maybe it sounds silly, but when I was all along in the bush, I didn't feel alone at all. At least, I did at first, but then it felt as if Jesus was right beside me, telling me not to worry.

Maybe it sounds silly, but when I was all alone in the bush, I didn't feel alone at all. At least, I did at first, but then it felt as if Jesus was right beside me, telling me not to worry.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

In order to evolve and become what nature and God intended us to be, we must attune ourselves with this process of constant change.

All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and take farewell according to their nature. This is a full moment in all journeying, the time when girths are tightened in preparation for the miles that lie ahead.

if I could have caught up from the earth, the whole of the flowers of the earth, if once I could have breathed into myself the very golden crocuses and the red, and the very golden hearts of the first saffron, the whole of the golden mass, the whole of the great fragrance, I could have dared the loss. — H.D., from "Eurydice," Collected Poems 1912-1944 (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1982)

Hermione looked far and far and George was a midge and a leaf was the size of a house and an acorn-cup would shelter herself...for...I am a tree planted by the river of water...I am in the word tree. I am tree exactly.

it is better to taste of frost— the exquisite frost— than of wadding and of dead grass.

The sun shines alike, the rain falls alike, the wings of Samothracian Nike spread alike over the just and the unjust, the seeing and the not-seeing and the almost seeing and the just not seeing.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

Some plants, some small water creatures give a sort of jellyfish sort of birth by breaking apart, by separating themselves from themselves.