Quotes About Nature

Snow as white as a swan's feather, white as a trillium bloom.

A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and sometimes so sad that you would expect the tears to drip off his beak. This magpie was like that.

The green sea swept into the shallows and seethed there like slaking quicklime. It surged over the rocks, tossing up spangles of water like a juggler and catching them deftly again behind. It raced knee-deep through the clefts and crevices, twisted and tortured in a thousand ways, till it swept nuzzling and sucking into the holes at the base of the cliff. The whole reef was a shambles of foam, but it was bright in the sun, bright as a shattered mirror, exuberant and leaping with light.

It's important not to get lost among the trees and forget about the amazing, beautiful forest you're planting.

out of the nest. He estimated the clutch had been around fifty eggs

The Bible says a man's heart is desperately wicked, and who can know it? We're all capable of more evil than we realize.

Man, that kind of little honeybee just buzzes from flower to flower." "Maybe, but honey is sweet , you know?

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

Thou strange piece of wild nature!

This seemingly innocuous statement was pregnant with clues about the nature of the phenomena being studied, but the hints sailed over the heads of most who read them.

Gorman had spent hours looking at them over time through the rifle scope that he carried with him to enhance his already superb eyesight.

Bottled water tastes like stale rocks

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

Accept what be is what be for that's just the way of this world.

Call humanity what it is; an imperfection amongst perfection.

Complete happiness is not present in the nature of humans.

Creation holds in its nature an ability to destruct.

The nature of money is that it comes and goes; it is not a constant like you and I and for that reason, we should not worry when an inconsistent entity does not exist as we wish it to for that is not integral to its nature.

True and lasting happiness can never be achieved in this world far human nature and the very nature of this life do not allow if so.

At last it had come, the day when I should become a hog! I tried out my teeth on the bark of trees; I contemplated my snout with delight. There was not remaining the least morsel of divinity. I was capable of raising my soul up to the excessive elevation of that ineffable sensuality.

I whose holy sperm embalms the mountains, the lakes, the woods, the forests, the hills and the vastnesses of seas!

?nsan der: "Okyanustan daha zekiyim ben." Olas?d?r; dahas? oldukça da do?rudur; ama onun okyanusta yaratt??? ürküntüden daha ço?unu okyanus onda uyand?r?r: Kan?tlanmas? gereksiz bir ?ey.

Je suis fils de l'homme et de la femme, d'après ce qu'on m'a dit. Ça m'étonne... je croyais être davantage! Au reste, que m'importe d'où je viens? Moi, si cela avait pu dépendre de ma volonté, j'aurais voulu être plutôt le fils de la femelle du requin, dont la faim est amie des tempêtes, et du tigre, à la cruauté reconnue: je ne serais pas si méchant.

L'homme dit : « Je suis plus intelligent que l'océan. » C'est possible ; c'est même assez vrai ; mais l'océan lui est plus redoutable que lui à l'océan : c'est ce qu'il n'est pas nécessaire de prouver.