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Quotes About Nature

Your brain is a forest, And the nerves are trees.When the branches touch, Snaps jumps between the leaves.
~ Unknown
Seductive pull of the forest, an open canvas for trouble.
~ Unknown
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.
~ Horace
The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.
~ Chief Seattle
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.
~ William Cobbett
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.
~ John Steinbeck
I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.
~ William Ames
Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.
~ Elizabeth Enright
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego suddenly shrinks because you are so touched by the dimension of your surroundings.
~ Volker Bertelmann
All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in His Son, and teaches us that we are also His Son.
~ Meister Eckhart
If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.
~ Paul Begala
It's natural that anyone is compared to their father.
~ Ziggy Marley
The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
~ Salvatore J. Cordileone
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
~ George MacDonald
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?
~ William Shakespeare
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
~ Horace
Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.
~ Aldo Leopold
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
~ Carl Jung
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
~ Julius Caesar
After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.
~ Gladys Taber