Quotes About Nature

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

I had seen a herd of elephant traveling through dense native forest… pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

Do you know a cure for me?" "Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." "Salt water?" I asked him. "Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

You know you are truly alive when you're living among lions.

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.

The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.

I lodhur nga medyshjet e linte nganjehere veten te binte ne enderrime pa kuptim. Mendonte se sa mire do te ishte sikur pas shtatorit, te vinte jo tetori me nentorin, por korriku me gushtin. Enderronte nje ere te marre qe te mund te ngaterronte muajt e stinet e vitit, ashtu si era e vjeshtes gjethet e thara.

You cannot defeat the sea - it is too great and too uncaring. You can only surrender to its power...All things that exist live, though maybe they do not measure life as we do. [Chapter 35, page 305]

Had not the jutting bones of the world survived a thousand aeons of human life? Could anything I or any human do really matter in the face of that? [Chapter 35, page 510]

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

The Creator has – I say it in all reverence - drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of Nature. The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

Where there are humans you'll find flies, and Buddhas.

Here I'm here- the snow falling.

In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends

On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting

Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop

Hi! My little hut Is newly-thatched I see... Blue morning-glories

Dry creek glimpsed by lightning

A world of grief and pain, but the flowers bloom even then

The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--

hey sparrows no pissing on my old winter quilt!

Take this single tree. They could cut it down and make half of it into an incense tray, decorate it with lacquer set with gold or silver filigree, and set it in an alcove of an aristocrat or man of high rank as a tasteful ornament. The other half they could make into wooden clogs for stepping through the mud. When you look at the two different shapes, one is admired while the other is considered mean, but they're the same in terms of the cutting down of a living tree.