Quotes About Nature

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." [ Notebook , Oct. 10, 1842]

Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.

It is painful to witness the death of the smallest of God's created beings, much more, one in which life is so vigorously maintained as the Whale! And when I saw this, the largest and most terrible of all created animals bleeding, quivering, dying a victim to the cunning of man, my feelings were indeed peculiar!

fluidity of the sea, not the rigidity of irresistible law, characterizes human conduct, especially in the midst of a calamity.

It's only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime.

a break in the prairie, pulling back the ground cover to reveal the stark

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.

Only when the last tree is cut, only when the last river is polluted, only when the last fish is caught, will they realize that you can't eat money.

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.

When snow melts, what does it become?' It becomes water, of course' Wrong! It becomes spring!

I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.

At the end of the day, to sit in my garden is to finally awaken

The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.

Forests are the elixir of life

Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known when class patriarchal society had established itself and imposed monogamous marriage on women. Motherhood is like sun and rain and plants, a quality and product of nature which does not require laws or systems in order to exist.

She was unsure of the meaning of the word 'envy' but had inherited it as she'd inherited her nose and arms and eyes.

Our home villages with the hills, mountains and forests, the lakes and ponds, rivers and streams, waterfall and fjords. The smell of new hay in summer, of birches in spring, of the sea, and the big forest, and even the biting winter cold. Everything . . . Norwegian songs and music and so much, much more. That's our Fatherland and that's what we have to struggle to get back.

Long my imprisoned spirit lay, Fast bound in sin and nature's night . . . My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. —Charles Wesley

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

And each one there has one thing shared; They have sweated beneath the same sun, Look up in wonder at the same moon, And wept when it was all done, For being done too soon.

Para comprender el estado de la humanidad puede que baste con saber que la mayoría de los grandes triunfos y grandes catástrofes de la historia no se deben a que las personas son buenas en esencia o malas en esencia, sino a que las personas son en esencia personas.

Knowledge is high in the head, but the salmon of wisdom swims deep