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Quotes About Nature

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
~ Will Cuppy
Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
~ Bootsy Collins
One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
~ Wallace Stegner
Choice and chance structure art and nature.
~ Frederick Sommer
We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.
~ Unknown
In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
~ John Cage
The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.
~ Dave Matthews
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.
~ Richard Dawkins
. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.
~ Aldo Leopold
Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.
~ Jared Diamond
Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
~ Wallace Stegner
Wind is a plant's only chance to make music.
~ Peter Steinhart
Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.
~ Richard Conniff
Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get.
~ Shannon Hale
Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature's reality, the deception was bearable. Unbearable pain began when chance entered the fray and deprived me of the smile meant for me.
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.
~ Letitia Baldrige
The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
~ Alfred the Great
The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.
~ John D. Voelker
The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.
~ Henry Vaughan
But like of each thing that in season grows.
~ William Shakespeare
If your fridge is full this Christmas, use nature's refrigerator - your car!
~ Anthea Turner
the fragrance of pine resin is frankincense poured out—a balm of stars and snow and moonlit nights
~ John Geddes
The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.
~ Thomas Berry