Quotes About Nature

I take my paycheck in sunsets.

it was a chicken-and-egg conundrum: were they animals because they were in jail . . . or were they in jail because they were animals?

There are some weeds that are just as beautiful as flowers.

In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies.

they've done their share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

The Abenaki also believe that there are some people who live between the animal world and the human world, never fully belonging to either one.

There is no grief amount wolves. Nature has a wonderful way of making you face reality. You can sit and weep if you want, but you are likely to be killed while you're still in your mourning, because you let your guard down.

I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.

It seemed to him that if you planted the seed of doubt in people's minds, they were more likely to take a look at new growth and yank it out by its roots as a potential weed, when it could very well have turned into something as harmless as a daisy.

I had become a bridge between the natural world and the human one. I fit into both places and belonged to neither. Half of my heart lived with the wild wolves, the other half lived with my family. In case you cannot do the math: no one can survive with half a heart.

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow -- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

But this isn't true. Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other. To

For Nina and Nathaniel, it's all about the end product—pouring it on pancakes and waffles. But to Caleb, the beauty is in the way you get there. The blood of a tree, a spout, and a bucket. Steam rising, the scent filling every corner of the house. There is nothing quite like it: knowing every breath you take is bound to be sweet.

In the wild, a female elephant would not separate from her male calf until he was ten to thirteen years old.

Later, as I got to know her, I'd realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become.

This has always been my favorite fact about bees: in their world, destiny is fluid. You might start life as a worker, and end up a queen.

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint.

His stone walls are knee-high, not castle-worthy. They have large gaps in them for driveways and paths and grape arbors. And yet every time he drives past a property he's shaped with his own heavy hands, he pictures the parents sitting down to dinner with their children, harmony wrapping the table like mosquito netting as if literal foundations might lay the pattern for emotional ones.

Nella natura selvaggia non ci sono le fiabe, non c'è la storia della Cenerentola. Il lupo di rango inferiore che sembra salire in cima al branco in realtà era sempre stato un alfa.

I did not realize at that time that when you plant seeds, you also get roots.

IT'S RAINING.

Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

Just looking at it, at so much beauty in one place, makes the tightness in my chest loosen a little. Surely if there's evil in the world, it's counterbalanced by moments like these. "You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to

La vera forza de lupo non sta nelle sue tremende mandibole, che possono stringere con una pressione di oltre cento chili per centimetro quadrato. La vera forza di un lupo sta nell'avere quella capacità e sapere quando non usarla.