Quotes About Nature

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish.

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

I would be lying if I didn't say that the most inspirational place for me is Jamaica.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

If it never rained, nothing would grow.

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.

And we didn't have cell phones. If you made plans to meet someone in a snow storm, and they didn't show up, you just had to assume they were devoured by wolves and go on with your life.

If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

He wears the rose Of youth upon him.

Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.