Quotes About Nature

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.

Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

We live in an old chaos of the sun.

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.