Quotes About Nature

All it takes is instinct.

about the tree.

The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

Every single day on earth, as it's been for millions of years, the sun slowly rises in the east, night gives way to dawn, dawn gives way to morning, the sun bursts above the horizon a little bit at a time and then all of a sudden in full bloom. The sky becomes lighter and clearer, the earth becomes radiated with light, and another day has begun.

How many times in the last year have you gotten up before the sun makes its way over that distant eastern horizon and witnessed the actual dawning of a new day? It is illuminating. It is inspiring. It is breathtaking.

Abundance is the natural state of the Earth, of nature, and of the universe.

LOYAL TO THE SOIL—WE NEED WATER NOT OIL and IF WE DESTROY CREATION, CREATION WILL DESTROY US.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

Burroughs predicted that automobiles and their drivers would eventually "seek out even the most secluded nook or corner of the forest and befoul it with noise and smoke." To him, the popularity of the Model T was the beginning of the end. He described Ford's brainchild vehicle as "a demon on wheels.

There is very little that is natural left in people when they stray from the cities. Day hiking in Gore-Tex with a bag of trail mix and a cell phone in a fanny pack and a bottle of iced chai tea clipped to your belt isn't actually natural, it's tourism, or worse, voyeurism.

And if you don't spend every second outdoors, people think there's someting wrong with you.

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Visualize any wooded area you remember visiting. It is beautiful, majestic - and no one ever fertilized any of the plants there. Not one single time.

If you really want to be a good gardener, you need to understand what is going on in your soil.

The ocean was magical to her, its depths and mysteries were boundless, its call irresistible.

Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short.

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.

You think Nature is some Disney movie Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.

Not even generals can stop the rain.

The earth hums? - Of course it does. What a stupid question! Don't you hear it?

Enrique Peñalosa, the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, sees things in a much simpler light: "God made us walking animals—pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy."38 That thought is beautiful, perfectly obvious

God made us walking animals—pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy."38 That thought is beautiful, perfectly obvious, and probably impossible to prove.

WILDERNESS SURVIVAL TIP! Ninety-seven percent of our nation's ponds are filled to the top with piranha, which can skeletonize a cow in seconds. If you value your cow, don't shove it into a pond.