Quotes About Nature

In the clear late-autumn light, the forests were a profusion of reds and golds, interrupted occasionally by large patches of black, like holes burnt in a Turkish carpet.

Aunque un hombre ascendiera a los cielos y contemplase las maravillas del universo y la belleza de las estrellas, el hermoso paisaje no le produciría regocijo alguno si hubiera de guardárselo para sí. Y si, por el contrario, tuviera a su lado a alguien a quien describirle semejante espectáculo, se colmaría de dicha. La naturaleza aborrece la soledad.

sixth birthday?" asked Cicero. "He told me over dinner the other night: 'More people worship a rising than a setting sun.

The trees themselves, as in winters past, will survive their burdening, broken thrive.

Unable to sleep, or pray, I stand by the window looking out at moonstruck trees a December storm has bowed with ice. Maple and mountain ash bend under its glassy weight, their cracked branches falling upon the frozen snow. The trees themselves, as in winters past, will survive their burdening, broken thrive. And am I less to You, my God, than they?

The trees themselves, as in winters past, will survive their burdening, broken thrive. And am I less to You, my God, than they?

Bone always outlasts feather

you know if you look close at the black of a tiger's whisker, it turns out it isn't black at all, but a swirl of violet and deep blue and kelp green.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle

the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious.

I think the woman was born in Far Madding in a thunderstorm. She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.

Only a fool thinks a lion or a woman can truly be tamed.

You cannot make the land go against itself. Not for long; the land will rebel. You must shape the vision to the land, not the land to the vision.

Once he had a grove of oaks chopped down because they were looking at him. And then insisted that they would be given decent funerals; he gave the orations. Do you have any idea how longs it takes to dig graves for twenty-three oak trees?

Let others know you possessed a secret, and some would work to learn it; that was a fact of nature.

That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life?

The rose petal floats on water," Lan recited softly. "The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

She probably told the thunder to be quiet. It probably did.

Feel it. Know it. Be it. You and the bud are the same. You are one. You are the bud.

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder. —

All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai," Androl said. "The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.