Quotes About Nature

Natural history is not about producing fables.

Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things

Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

We teach in our cultural history that the entire universe is a family. So our association with Nature is much deeper and of a very different kind.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong

We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.

It's good way to relax when I come home from the road. When you're out there on the tractor there's nobody to bother you.

It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

Going into the woods, is going home

I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!

Going to the mountains is going home.

More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home.

Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday.

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.