Quotes About Nature

Iceland is a little country far north in the cold sea.

Plumes of white, pink, and purple blossoms offset the one hundred shades of green our little city is known for this time of year: lime, celery, and avocado, butter lettuce and kale, Granny Smith apple and broccoli and sage.

Being in nature refreshes us by ... allowing us to surrender to involuntary attention: the effortless and often enjoyable noticing of sensory stimuli in our environment.

Each spring the robins nesting in our cherry tree attack the side mirror of our car as if it were a rival, pecking furiously at their own reflections while streaking the door with guano. But who among us hasn't been toppled by our vanity or made an enemy of our own image?

I love this idea, that nature dreamed up the same kind of sleep in both humans and birds, fostering the growth of big brains in creatures so far apart on life's tree.

He taught me the difference between casual "birdwatching" and the more intense, focused "birding," and urged me to go beyond identifying birds to noting their actions and behavior.

Every forest has its own character, its own whispered rumors and smells.

Tiny fairywren Who is your father? *snake chomp* Guess we'll never know

A frigate bird with a seven-foot wingspan has a skeleton that weighs less than its feathers.

It's a natural human impulse

I discovered in nature the same appeal I found in books. Both were engrossing, filled with the richness of particularities and yet mysteriously universal. Both were the stuff of perspective.

The real naturalist should be a Boswell, and every creature should be, for him, a Dr. Johnson.

It's a telling example of how basic owl science has boosted human medicine—and how an owl's eyes and ears work together.

Jennifer Ackerman

An owl's auditory system shares with other birds another superpower we mammals don't possess: it doesn't age.

I can see why some people become "beach bunnies": you don't have to think about things or even talk when you're on the beach. You just sit here and feel good about being alive.

Mama says it's just her nature. Some people are flowers, and some are thorns.

Everything ye see is ours," he said. "What do ye think?" Mary's eyes shone. "I've never seen anything so beautiful." Her cheeks were pink from the wind, her lips red. "Or cold." "Aye, well, that's Kilmorgan for ye. Will enchant ye and try to kill ye at the same time." "Aren't most Scotsmen like that?" Mal shrugged. "'Tis a good point.

Is that you? Nice wolfie.

Satyrs share a deep connection to all things in nature and are highly sensual. Obsessed with physical pleasure, they are usually mild-mannered, but will be extremely sexually aggressive if another male stakes a mating claim on a female the Satyr secretly covets, especially if she's a virgin," Darius recited.

Which was he, then, savage or gentleman?

Spring is here and love is in the air...or maybe it's the smell of fertilizer being sprinkled on my neighbor's lawn. -The Dog House, March

Autumn is the most beautiful time of the year in Ann Arbor because hundreds of different types of trees are filled with crisp orange and yellow leaves.

The wolves in the woods have sharp teeth and long claws, but it's the wolf inside who will tear you apart.