Quotes About Nature

Kitty stared at the sky smashing against the mountains.

When the coach set me down before that avenue of trees – straight and stern with cicadas screaming in the tall branches – I saw no welcome for a starved brat missing her mama.

When Esther and Joe - resolutely urban, nurtured by density, neurosis, and the Great Depression - discovered the woods, they never wanted to leave.

The nature of unleavened childhood is so open to magic and so quiet.

Because it was said that a man had to appreciate beauty in order to know what he is fighting to protect.

I like to pic-a-nic more than a bee likes to bumble.

Good garden of peas!

We were raised on lentils, brown rice, Neil Young, and solstice celebrations.

What is heartbreaking is that there is still beauty in the world.

Walking a trail frees my mind to wander....

If the buffalo herd was a large one, sometimes the train would stop for an hour or so, the conductor, engineer, and entire crew joining the passengers in the sport. An

We must live near the buffalo or starve.

Gli indiani avevano l'impressione che questi europei odiassero tutto ciò che faceva parte della natura: le foreste con i loro uccelli e i loro animali, le radure, l'acqua, il suolo e l'aria stessa.

Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains — Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West . (Holt Paperbacks; 30th Anniversary edition January 23, 2001) Originally published 1970.

Nothing lives long Only the earth and the mountains.

Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there are no enclosures and where everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls. I know every stream and every wood between the Rio Grande and the Arkansas. I have hunted and lived over that country. I lived like my fathers before me, and, like them, I lived happily. Para-Wa-Samen (Ten Bears) of the Tamparika Comanches

Already the once sweet-watered streams, most of which bore Indian names, were clouded with silt and the wastes of man; the very earth was being ravaged and squandered. To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature-the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy glades, the water, the soil, and the air itself.

The Navahos could forgive the Rope Thrower for fighting them as a soldier, for making prisoners of them, even for destroying their food supplies, but the one act they never forgave him for was cutting down their beloved peach trees.

The old men say the earth only endures. You spoke truly. You are right.

Slip away and come watch the sunset." -Marcus 'There are more calls to finish.' -Shari "Those will wait. The sunset won't" -Marcus

Why flowers are so important to the main character) I need the reminder that God loves to make detailed and beautiful things, and that act of creation is itself a sufficient reason to make them. These flowers will live and die here, the majority of them never seen, even though a busy road is less than a mile away.

The Bible says God is good. It's His personality, His nature. It's impossible for Him to do bad; it's outside His very character. And yet when we start to think about religion, about God, we spend most of our time trying to gather up the courage to trust and believe that God is actually going to be good to us and be willing to help us.