Quotes About Nature

Love is an ocean, kindness is a river, and compassion is a stream.

Love is the most beautiful flower in the garden of life.

Love is the softest rose in the soul's garden.

Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places.

One who loves roses cannot avoid thorns.

Roses do not bloom the same time as daisies.

Roses have no reason to envy daisies.

Roses have thorns but are worth more than daises.

The most beautiful roses sometimes have the sharpest thorns.

Thorns do not stop the rose from being picked.

The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.

How still it is! Stinging into the stones, The locusts' trill.

The summer grasses Of brave soldiers' dreams The aftermath.

The passing of spring The birds weep and in the eyes Of fish there are tears.

Clear cascades!Into the waves scatterBlue pine needles.

On a journey, ill,And over fields all withered, dreamsGo wandering still.

An old pond—A frog leaping in—The sound of water.

The months and days are the travelers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers…. I too for years past have been stirred by the sight of a solitary cloud drifting with the wind to ceaseless thoughts of roaming.

A rough sea!Stretched out over SadoThe Milky Way.

When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring only grasses thrive. I sat down on my hat and wept bitterly till I almost forgot time. A thicket of summer grass Is all that remains Of the dreams and ambitions Of ancient warriors.

Not knowing the name of the tree, I stood in the flood of its sweet scent.

Moon woke me up nine times —still just 4 a.m.

Year after year On the monkey's face: A monkey's face.

All who have achieved excellence in art possess one thing in common; that is, a mind to be one with nature, throughout the seasons.