Quotes About Nature

Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Pregúntale a cualquier jardinero.

dinner – the Badgers, the Moles, the Rabbits and the Weasels. Tell her it will be a truly great feast. And tell her the

The mountain was dark blue and all around it the sky was gushing and glistening with light.

their oars and stared up at the

of different wild flowers and ferns grow.

Then, high above their heads, they heard the call of a wild duck. They all looked up, and they saw the four birds, lovely against the blue sky, flying very close together, heading back to the lake in the woods.

You just took a breath. You're about to take another. Inhale, then exhale, then another inhale. In and out. There's a rhythm to your breathing. It's the same with nature.

The moment you pin down the butterfly so that you can carefully study it is the exact moment in which that butterfly can no longer fly. It's the motion, the movement, the flying, that makes a butterfly a butterfly.

Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning "gatherer of beautiful things.

During a long heart-to-heart talk, as they ramble through the country lanes near Bredon Hill, his father muses upon the old meaning of 'pagan' – 'belonging to the village'. 'The village is sneered at as something petty. Petty it can be. Yet it works – the scale is human. People can relate there. Man may yet, in the nick of time, revolt, and save himself. Revolt from the monolith; come back to the village.' He

Anthems in Eden

The rivers rose, and, when they receded, sucked more of the fertile soil back down with them, to run down the Pedernales to the Colorado, down the Colorado to the Gulf. And

Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That's a law of nature, to be known henceforth as 'Harshaw's Law.

Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely!

Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse.

Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.