Quotes About Nature

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.

The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!

The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim.

Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.

I know that I was hiking at a very young age because I remember being convinced that it was the trees that were talking.

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.