Quotes About Nature

Only God is good.""We can make good works, We can be called good folksWe can do good, but we cannot be good.

Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

America is more than just a place...it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.

We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.