Quotes About Nature

Why is Melancholy like Honey? Because it is very sweet, and it is culled from Flowers.

For he realized at last that the spiritual balm he had always found in silent things was simply the assurance that the passions and agonies of man were without meaning, roots, or duration - no more part of the permament background of the world than the curls of blue smoke that from time to time were wafted through the valley from the autumn bonfires of weeds and rubbish, and that he could see winding like blue wraiths in and out of the foilage of the trees.

It's hard to believe that a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. They don't have anything at all in common. But I guess it's just as strange that a kid turns into an adult. I never want to be like a grown-up. They don't have much fun. Greta and I are planning to live next door to each other when we grow up, and raise horses and dogs and keep a few cats. I guess we'll have to marry men who like animals.

Here it says that snapping turtles eat crayfish, snails, insects, fish, frogs, salamanders, reptiles, birds, mammals, and aquatic plants. Gee, with a diet like that, we ought to be able to argue that they won't be eating many fish." "That's good," Greta agreed. "We could also make the case that they control snakes. My mom would go for that.

We buried the little chipmunk in Greta's backyard and marked the place with a stone. I said a prayer over its grave. I don't know if there is a chipmunk heaven, or for that matter, even an animal heaven, but I sure hope there is. Better still, I'd like all animals to go to our heaven. It would make the place a lot more interesting than I usually picture it.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

This used to be among my prayers—a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden, and near the house a spring of ever-flowing water, and beyond these a bit of wood.

Cease your efforts to find where the last rose lingers.

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.

Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.

You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

O fount Bandusian, more sparkling than glass.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.)

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.

The hemlock tree is named spruce-pine, while spruce is he-balsam, balsam itself is she-balsam, laurel is ivy, and rhododendron is laurel.

Grant that on this voyage we may frequently kill bears, as they may be crossing the Scioto and Sandusky.

The scrotum of a buck, tanned with the hair on, makes a good tobacco-pouch.

The following recipe is from Abercrombie & Fitch s catalogue: "Skin and clean carefully four muskrats, being particular not to rupture musk or gall sac.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

fangosa. El paisaje es agresivo, y reina en él un silencio de muerte. Al atardecer, sin embargo

romántico hasta sentir el estado de dolorosa melancolía que provoca una simple garúa que agrisa el patio

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.