Quotes About Nature

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.

We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.

Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something--something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

Like everything else, the beans had exploded with growth in the last few days. "Holy jumping garbanzos!" my father declared. My mother answered with, "Great leapin' limas!

The young man gave Cloyd a poke. "You must crave the taste of trout, the way you hung onto 'em.

I could have found a dry place in the trees, but I was running and fell into a hole." The old man winked at the stranger and chuckled. "From the looks of it, the ground flew up and hit you in the face.

There was so much life wrapped up in that pony's hide that it was mighty hard for him to settle down and behave...he sometimes had to bust out and do things that wasn't at all proper...

Modern witchcraft, she'd learned, was simply a religion that reveres nature.

All you need to grow fine, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk.

The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

A man that don't love a horse, there is something the matter with him.

The truth is that people never realize their lives are about to change in unforeseen ways—that's just the nature of unforeseen ways.

Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

I hate flowers to death. What are they for? You cannot eat them. They die in a day. They are a complete waste of money.

By denying the intelligence in animals, ignoring their extensive abilities to feel and to live as subjects in their own ways in the natural world, we have made our culture and ourselves less intelligent.