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Quotes About Nature

With people you can never tell, Will they have changed when next we meet? But here in my dear old home at least, The plums still smell as sweet. / ???? ????? ????? ???? ???????
~ Fujiwara no Okikaze
Impassionate gods have never seen the red that is the Tatsuta River. /????? ?????? ??? ??????? ??????
~ Ariwara no Narihira
You crawled inside myribs to die. Giant becomes squirrelbecomes a dirt-wet girlfeverishly alive.
~ Virginia Petrucci
The morning slathers its whateveracross the thing.
~ Michael Robbins
No one's serious at seventeen, When lindens line the promenades
~ Arthur Rimbaud
You were, arecactus tourism. meeting you: granularfractals borrowed from oceans.
~ Virginia Petrucci
Some people wait to get flowers while others grow gardens.
~ Chris McGeown
The machines are too dull when weare lion-poems that move & breathe.
~ Michael McClure, Ghost Tantras
a storm that walked on legs of lightning, dragging its shaggy belly over the fields.
~ Ted Kooser
Concrete breathes sun's heat.
~ Cameron Conaway, Bonemeal
Why is it that you still beguile me –As wind, stone, bird – and all the likes? Why is that you smile on me – With sudden summer lightning strikes?
~ Anna Akhmatova, White Flock
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
~ G. K. Chesterton
Laying in a hammock, darkness surrounds me.
~ Fida Islaih, Hugs & Kisses
It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
~ John Ruskin
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
~ Ani DiFranco
In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.
~ Jonas Mekas
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
~ Enoch Powell
Man is by nature a political animal.
~ Aristotle
I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.
~ John Denver
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
~ George MacDonald
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson II
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
~ Joseph de Maistre
When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.
~ Ron Paul
Politics is applied biology.
~ Ernst Haeckel