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Quotes About Nature

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either
~ Jennifer Donnelly
There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I. The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness. Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
He loves the sparkling fountains and their cascades and says the strangest things as he watches them. they look like stars breaking. Or, They look like Mama's diamonds. Or, They look like all the souls in heaven.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Thousands of musical voices, like rain on water, beckoned.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
As I turned to go, I nearly trod on the body of a young robin half hidden in the grass. Its wings were twisted and bent. Its body stiff and bloodied. 'A hawk's work,' I thought, wondering if the robin had seen the brilliant blue of the sky and felt the sun on its back before its wings were broken.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Beauty is not always pretty.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Humans are selfish creatures who can always be counted on to do the wrong thing.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
The fox cannot change her nature and I cannot change mine.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Los lobos del bosque tienen dientes afilados y largas zarpas, pero es el lobo de tu interior el que acabara por destrozarte.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
thought, wondering if the robin had seen the brilliant blue of the sky and felt the sun on its back before its wings were broken.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Roses have thorns, and thorns leave wounds.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.
~ Jennifer Egan
water laughing softly down a black stone wall.
~ Jennifer Egan
I like to be near water whenever possible, don't you?" he said, gazing into the dark. "Melville put it best: 'Nothing will content men but the extremest limit of the land'—but that's not it, I can't recall the quote. It's in our nature to seek out the edge. Even on a golf course
~ Jennifer Egan
The sound of the wind against the sides of the house is exactly like the sound of wolf fur against cardboard.
~ Jennifer Egan
NICOLE CULLEN Long Tom Lookout
~ Jennifer Egan
The forest is like a sentient creature drawing breath around me. The moon's brightness has a sound. It rings in the sky. I've had a fever, which has been hard, but it has left my mind clearer than before. There's another way of seeing the world, like looking through the bottom of a glass.
~ Jennifer Egan
The fish are gaudy, easy targets, nibbling at coral. Lou has speared seven by the time he realizes Rolph hasn't killed a single one.
~ Jennifer Egan
Basic exchanges elongate like time-lapse fruits ripening and dropping into outstretched hands.
~ Jennifer Egan
Silence after a roaring motor is a sound of its own.
~ Jennifer Egan
Again and again he spoke to Charlotte of things, watermelons and grain and cattle and string, reaper-mowers and harvester combines, chisel mortisers and scroll saws and flue stops and piston rings and grain elevators. Objects existing in time and space.
~ Jennifer Egan
The river runs wide and passive in sunlit stretches, then fast and bawdy with whitewater rapids.
~ Jennifer Egan