Quotes About Nature

Also pay attention if a tree or whatnot says something about two bulls.

Menns lærdom kommer av bøker, kvinners av naturen

È molto bello qui" commenta infine togliendosi la pipa di bocca; e poi, indicando i costoni calcarei dell'Untersberg, "Lo vedi quel bosco?" Una pausa. "Da noi sono più grandi, molto più grandi, non finiscono mai. Quando riuscirai a immaginarli, vuol dire che sei già là , in Canada, nelle Rocky Mountains.

Come l'ardita e cupa prora di una nave, l'Aiguille Noire fende i flutti dell'aria portati dalla tempesta. Ciuffi di nubi salgono verticali sopra la cresta, come bandiere. Noi invece siamo qui, schiacciati contro la parete. Le nebbie fluttuano sopra di noi, sprazzi di luce, là dove comincia la neve.

Vissa människor är smartare eller mer musikaliska eller bättre poeter än andra och tillsammans med miljön är generna utan tvekan en del av förklaringen till det. Men dessa gener är inte nedärvda i rasvisa förpackningar.

Martland has only two personalities – Wilde and Eeyore.

those shyest and sweetest of woodland blooms. . .

Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.

It seemed like a garden where no frost could wither or rough wind blow--a garden remembering a hundred vanished summers." "It seemed like a garden where no frost could wither or rough wind blow--a garden remembering a hundred vanished summers." ? L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

Each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.

There is an intense relationship between proximate objects, a much weaker one between objects further away, and as for the really distant ones there is none at all, and that is the nature of God.

Only the land remained, the silent order of the mountains, the ground covered in fallen dead leaves in the enormous space, a boundless expanse - disguising, concealing, hiding, covering all that lies below the burning earth.

Bough of a tree to the rain . . ." he turns the phrase over in his mouth as if it were fine wine, trying to guess its vintage, realizing somewhat indifferently that it is beyond him.

One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.

If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors. The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.

it is folly for us to try to appear otherwise than as nature has made us.

A beautiful girl is much superior to a little yellow bird, and a boy—such as I was—far better than a Green Monkey.

I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such small things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is!

At noon they sat down by the roadside, near a little brook, and Dorothy

came to eat the corn too, so in a short time there

and the Lion, he said to the Woodman, and the bees cannot sting them. This the Woodman did, and as Dorothy lay close beside the Lion

woods. The road was still paved with yellow brick, but these were much covered by dried branches and dead leaves from the trees, and the walking was not at all good. There were few

All the magic isn't in fairyland, he said gravely. There's lots of magic in all Nature, and you may see it as well in the United States, where you and I once lived, as you can here.