Quotes About Nature

Architects should make houses into gardens, and gardens into houses.

In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

Excessive symmetry is either unnatural and conceals some human thought behind it, or else supernatural and conceals some mystery.

O outono é a única estação civilizada. A primavera é um descontrole glandular da Natureza. O inverno é o preço que a gente paga para ter o outono, e por isso está perdoado. O verão é uma indignidade. [...] Clássicos ao pé do fogo, um vago cachorro e sherry seco contra o catarro. Um gentleman não deve suar, meu caro.

O louva-a-deus é como Deus pretendia a espécie, uma haste de louvor à sua Glória. Uma planta com senso bastante para sentir dor e devoção e nada mais.

Em comparação com o que a mulher, historicamente, sofreu num mundo dominado por homens e seus terrores, o que ela sofre com a Natureza é pinto. Com trocadilhos".

I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin." -In the yellow time of pollen

Someone who could get up in the morning, make coffee, choose what to wear, and then go out and cold-bloodedly put a total stranger to death. Did you have to be some kind of anomalous, psychopathic freak to do that? Did you have to be born that way? Or could any woman, correctly programmed, be turned into a professional executioner?

Human beings are the planets way of committing suicide.

On our garden walks Mama always used to tell me, 'Angels live in gardens, Darcy.' 'Where?' I would ask, looking around for the white-winged beings I saw drawn on my Sunday school papers. 'Close your eyes and breathe deep.' 'All is smell is flowers, Mama,' I would say. 'Not so. That's the breath of the angels. And the stirrings you hear in the leaves are their wings brushing past.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.

Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

Listen patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.

I firmly believe, from what I have seen, that this is the chosen spot of all this earth as far as nature is concerned.

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

God writes His Gospel not in the Bible alone, but in trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

This year is the year of man's ingratitude: the next will be the year of God's chastisement; for God must needs chastise, though 'tis against his nature: we will have it so.