Quotes About Nature

Ask nature questions, and you will get answers.

Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning. When the sky lightened, when the birds awoke, I knew I would never again see anything so splendid as the round red sun coming up over the earth.

Charlie Wind once told me we must keep the animals on Earth, for they know everything: how to keep warm, predict the storms, live in darkness or blazing sun, how to navigate the skies, to organize societies, how to make chemicals and fireproof skins. The animals know the Earth as we do not.

When the wolves are gone there will be too many caribou grazing the grass and the lemmings will starve. Without the lemmings the foxes and birds and weasels will die. Their passing will end smaller lives upon which even man depends, whether he knows it or not, and the top of the world will pass into silence.

We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

That turtle is fearless. She has to be. She carries the Earth on her back.

I don't know why, but this seemed like one of the nicest things I had learned in the woods--that earthworms, lowly, confined to the darkness of the earth, could make just a little stir in the world.

and June burst over the mountain. It smelled good, tasted good, and was gentle to the eyes.

It seemed marvelous to see life pump through that strange little body of feathers, wordless noises, milk eyes—much as life pumped through me.

Yes, you are Eskimo," he had said. "And never forget it. We live as no other people can, for we truly understand the earth.

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

People must help one another it is nature's law.

Le vent déracina celui de qui le ciel était voisin et dont les pieds touchaient à l'empire des mots.

When the former attains to the supreme moment, and when the seed springs forth, at that moment the woman receives the strength of the male, while the male receives the strength of woman...It is because of this that the mystery of carnal union is practiced in secret, so that the conjunction of natures should not be degraded through being seen of the multitude who would despise that work.

Hoe snel de politieke en sociale veranderingen zich ook voltrekken, het belet u niet om te leven, aan andere dingen te denken of aan helemaal niets, te wandelen in de bossen, te zwemmen in zee, het theater of de opera te bezoeken, boeken te lezen, u te vermaken en te lachen. Terwijl stormen en omwentelingen om me heen razen, zet ik mijn weg gewoon verder. Tijdens de werken blijft de zaak geopend.

Trecutul era o p?dure mare, foarte frumoas?, unde cât vedeai cu ochii, se încruci?au ramurile acelor arbori care coborau pân? la noi.

I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.

A living speck-the merest dab of life-capable of pleasure and pain, is far more interesting to me than all the immensities of mere matter.

I walk with Rafe to the End of the Rainbow. With his wild ginger hair and beard flattened by the rain, he looks like a wet haystack. He catches me grinning at him. "Well, you don't look like any GQ guy yourself," he says, and then we're laughing like maniacs while the rain pours down on us.

I had recourse to magic, that is, to a kind of deliberate predisposition, an intuitive complicity with nature.

when at night I walk barefoot in my sandals across fields of snow at the Austrian border, I shall not flinch, but then, I say to myself, this painful moment must concur with the beauty of my life, I refuse to let this moment and all the others be waste matter; using their suffering, I project myself to the mind's heaven.

Voilà que ça prend aux Ubacs, se murmure-t-elle.

All was iris-blue, earth and sky together, with a cluster of clouds in the west. The young sun made his way, knee-deep in the grass. The wind scattered the dew like a lively colt. It sent up flights of birds which swam for a while among the waves of the sky, as if drunk and dizzy from screaming, and then suddenly dropped, like handfuls of stones.

Minou, minou, en poil de chou, t'as le cul qui gèle sur ta colline, fais-toi un lit d'homme, t'as des griffes comme une charrue et ta langue râpe, c'est Janet qui te cause; je te rognerai les griffes à coup de serpe, moi. »