Quotes About Nature

Art Nouveau was coil-envy.

A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins. It has been given many names. Each inlet and bay and stream has been classified as if it were discrete. But it is one thing, where borders are absurd. It fills the space between stones and sand, curling around coastlines and filling trenches between the continents.

The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.

Strictly speaking, she thought, this place was a cross between a forest and a jungle. "This is a jorest," she said to Hemi. "Yeah," he said. "No, it's a fungle." They grinned.

Collingswood frowned at the clouds, like she did not like what they wrote.

On the hill we used a different, vaguer calendar than the one I've since learned. The seasons ours described—summer, dimming, and winter—were suited to a different place: the mountain had two seasons at most.

I took the goats downslope a bit and they screamed at each other and I screamed too to see what it was like.

It is a jungle where hierarchies of infinities tower like prehistoric beasts.

utterly human moan started from him, and it grew and grew until it became a bird

The branches dropped shaggy creepers that, when they reached the earth, hardened into roots and pried apart paving.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

By nature all men are alike, but by education very different.

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.

If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk; If you want to be happy for three days, get married; If you want to be happy forever, make a garden.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

Tiger father begets tiger son.

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Life begins the day you start a garden.

A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald

There are Six Essentials in painting. The first is called spirit; the second, rhythm; the third, thought; the fourth, scenery; the fifth, the brush; and the last is the ink.

Nothing but water -- an ever-moving swell; nothing but waves, swiftly forming and instantly dying; nothing but depths; dark, fathomless depths; and nothing but sky, scudding white clouds, puffy and intangible. This was the living world, nothing besides, nothing else but sea. No winter or summer, no hills or ravines.

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