Quotes About Nature

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him.

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

I'm the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake…. When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales! I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder!

It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

It was a monstrous big river down there.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.

I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.

We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.

The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.

Look up there! That's the sky!