Quotes About Nature

My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there.

Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

I'd rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.

Good morning starshine, the Earth says hello!

If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.

The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner with one sheep.

Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.