Quotes About Nature

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and I don't think anyone else does either.

My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.

The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.

For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the world...we got into our souls a sense of beauty.

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.