Quotes About Nature

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Penguins mate for life. That doesn't surprise me much because they all look alike. It's not like they're going to meet a really new, great looking penguin someday.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Life is a rose; beware of the thorns.

Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.