Quotes About Nature

The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.

How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them.

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.