Quotes About Nature

Never take for granted what God has given you. The same sun which melts ice, also hardens clay.

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.

almost every pearl on sale today was born of the planned sexual violation of a small creature, and that considerable suffering hangs on those necklace strings.

Years later the Romantic poet John Keats would complain that on that fateful day Newton had "destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to prismatic colors." But color—like sound and scent—is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe—and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them.

Like pearls that cannot be sprayed too much with perfume or warmed too much with smoke, left alone too much or touched too much, the mother oysters and mussels must be treated gently—as the Scottish pearl-fishers, too, had learned to their regret. These creatures are a barometer of how we are treating our planet. Sometimes in our greed to make them produce pretty things for our pleasure we forget that they deserve our respect.

But color—like sound and scent—is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe—and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them. While

I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. —SIR ISAAC NEWTON

Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.

One I love is taken from me, we will never walk together over the fields of earth, never hear the birds in the morning. Oh, how I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone away. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all my days.

And above them, a plume of thistledown caught the light of the stars.

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We are born, we suffer, we love, we die, but the waves continue to beat upon the rocks; the seed time and the harvest come and go, but the earth remains.

Victoria Houston

If you lament: my nature, my entire being is without salvation, and I must be lost forever, then the message of Christmas answers: your nature, your entire being has been accepted; Jesus bears it, so he has become your Savior.

Collioure from La Tour Vieille.

He used to love small spaces, in fact—had filled his room in Lehrer's apartment with dozens of houseplants with wide frond-like leaves, vines that dangled down from the ceiling like Spanish moss.

Last Week Dara had asked Claire to bring him a houseplant. She'd come back with a tiny little pothos vine in a ceramic pot. Dara had positioned it near the window, and he was embarrassed to admit he'd taken to talking with the plant, one-sided conversations to fill the empty hours.

Under the glimmer of moonlight among towering forest trees, walks the goddess Artemis. Close to her side she carries with her a silver bow and arrows.

The bones are a reminder of our mortality, of the fleeting nature of life. But they are also a reminder of the immortality of the spirit, of the enduring legacy that we leave behind." (Kneubuhl 76)

We must never forget that we are all connected, that our actions have consequences, and that we have a responsibility to one another, to our community, and to the land. We must strive to live in harmony with the natural world, and to protect and preserve it for future generations (Kneubuhl 89)

We must never forget that we are all connected, that our actions have consequences, and that we have a responsibility to one another, to our community, and to the land. We must strive to live in harmony with the natural world, and to protect and preserve it for future generations (p 65)

The people of this land have always had a deep connection to the 'aina. They knew that the land was not something to be owned or exploited, but rather a living, breathing entity to be respected and cared for." (Kneubuhl 21)

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.