Quotes About Nature

Los perros ladran en la distancia y los gallos anunciaban la llegada del nuevo día.

Cuando era niño, solía llevar a casa animales del bosque (…) Nunca logré domesticarlos, porque lo único que querían, ciega e irracionalmente, era escapar.

But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?

The world is always outside. And it is in the world that we must live.

Like young fern shoots my child's fingers curled. I did not expect, in the fifth month, frost.

I'm sure it's innate, it's just biology, for a man to want a woman who can give him children.

It's like telling a blind person, "Oh, sure, you get to see mountains and sunsets, but there are also rubbish dumps and pollution!

The weather wasn't helping. It was far too lovely, mocking her pain.

She was floating, arms outspread, water lapping her body, breathing in a summery fragrance of salt and coconut.

She felt as if she needed to run crazily across a huge expanse of grass, flinging her body about like a puppy let off its leash.

Her boys were gorgeous little darlings. Her boys were feral little animals.

She loved the sound of wind chimes and the smells of essential oils. These were her people; this was her thing. ("Hippies with money," Julia would say.)

The size of the land can be humbling. It puts my human existence into perspective, not in the sense of feeling like a bug on the windshield of life, but more a feeling of belonging to something too big to comprehend. The times when I have a view of the broad vistas sometimes make me feel as big as the land. I love the size of the land, how it rolls on and on, untamed and for the most part untouched.

If it were possible for every person to own a tree and to care for it, the good results would be beyond estimation.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close.

Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of the present and the visible, and so much of the future and the unseen.

My brethren, the Bible is like nature in its immense, its exhaustless variety; like nature, it reflects all the higher moods of the human soul, because it does much more; because it brings us face to face with the infinity of the Divine Life.

Being near the sea liberates me from negativity and tension and enlightens me when I am feeling lost or confused. I feel a certain freedom when I am close to the water.