Quotes About Nature

I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.

Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. With her about many smiles came out and joined in sweet array.

I don't bless people because I don't wanna. I do it because that's what kind of person I am. It's almost like i can't resist." ? Sage Canny

The kind person is rewarded by nature.

It was easy to love God in all that was beautiful. The lessons of deeper knowledge, though, instructed me to embrace God in all things.

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

Suave sopla el viento, suave fluye el río, que los días y las noches nos traigan felicidad, que el polvo de la tierra produzca felicidad, que los árboles nos hagan felices con sus frutos, que el Sol nos envuelva de felicidad...

Río de Janeiro y Brasil entero son un paraíso en el que abunda todo lo que la vida animal tiene de delicado y bravío, del colibrí al jaguar. Hay ríos que parecen lagos, lagos que parecen mares y cascadas que rugen, y una luz tropical que deslumbra...

Aquella arruga reflejaba dos características de su naturaleza: su mal carácter y su perenne perplejidad ante cualquier operación mental más compleja que sumar dos y dos con los dedos.

De los bosques salían ménades y sátiros furiosos que exterminaban aldeas enteras. Sólo mataban, sin saquear como hacían los humanos, puesto que aquellos seres de la espesura no ambicionaban posesiones materiales.

Whatever gods there be, there is something godlike in man, as there is also something of the devil in him.

I am not the lonely human, plunked down on earth to aimlessly wander. I am a part of that earth and not going anywhere- just like the spider up in the corner, the dust on the sill, and the cat I buried in the backyard. -Jamaica Ritcher.

Counselees continually confuse learned behavior patterns with inherited nature (phusis). Counselors may take it as a rule that any quality of life, attitude of mind, or activity that God requires of man may be acquired through the Lord Jesus Christ.

All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.

What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshakable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary.

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

The person who lived an entirely private life, Aristotle said, was either a beast or a god.

Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic and they are related to the whole structure of the plant through self-similar spirals proportioned by the golden mean.

The Discovery Channel had a fascinating show on the mating habits of hyenas. They said that the male hyena often will get angry at the female hyena while they are having sex. It doesn't help that the female hyena is laughing at you all the time.

Believe me, if you're a teenager, you're always in the damned woods. Literally, you're in the woods — probably too much you're in the woods. And metaphorically you're in the woods, in your life.

Gene Autry riding into coral skyline while the cacti stand up ancient and timeless