Quotes About Nature

El animal primero se queda quieto y luego huye.

Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature.

A child said What is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he." ?— ?Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself

Water cress. I'd just as soon eat my way across a front lawn.

Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other, without taking breath away from them.

También suelo apoyar la cabeza en los escritorios de madera y los escucho, porque hacen ruidos similares a las ramas mecidas por el viento, como si todavía fueran árboles

I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

her dangling braids the color of rain.

BREAKLIGHT Light keeps on breaking. i keep knowing the language of other nations. i keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean. and light just keeps on breaking… Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson

thunder and lightning and our world is another place no day will ever be the same no blood untouched

Lo digo ingenuamente, prefiero el aire libre del desierto, su cielo, su sublime y poética soledad, a estas calles encajonadas, a este hormiguero de gente atareada, a estos horizontes circunscritos que no me permiten ver el firmamento cubierto de estrellas, sin levantar la cabeza, ni gozar del espectáculo imponente de la tempestad cuando serpentean los relámpagos luminosos y ruge el trueno.

For greed all nature is too little.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

All art is but imitation of nature.

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

All things must needs be borne on through the calm void, moving at equal rate with unequal weights.