Quotes About Nature

under the sky, and see the cow standing in the water upstream near the single leaning willow. And all at once you feel like crying. But the train is going fast, and almost immediately whatever you felt is taken away from you, too. You bloody fool, do you think that you want to milk a cow? You do not want to milk a cow.

that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of good, and the devil take the hindmost

the endless easy joy that came with pissing into the morning sun.

Measure after measure, it's the same. We aren't classically monogamous or polygamous. As everyone from poets to divorce attorneys can attest, we are by nature profoundly confused—mildly polygynous, floating somewhere in between.

During one wave, I suddenly found myself cramped over in front of my tent, stark naked, painful, liquid acidic craps, and, the humiliation of it all, surrounded by six elephants, silent, quizzical, polite, murmuring, almost solicitous, their trunks waving in the air investigating my actions and moans. They watched my agonized shitting as if it were an engrossing, silent Shakespearean tragedy performed in the round.

Walt Whitman: "Hold me up, I want to shit.

Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.

Garden planners needed for Arcturus! Come and relax among the only vegetable-sentients in the galaxy!

They say this is the richest era of human existence; but I think a man can be richer in knowing every atom of a single golden island in a blue sea than by spending his days striding among all the worlds.

Bones and rocks are eloquent storytellers, if you know how to listen to them.

Then the tree provides shade for your enjoyment.

Investment cycles come in waves, as do ocean waves. They also change with the seasons.

Surfers learn to respect the change in the power of the waves and water with each change of season.

There was perfect silence, except for the sounds of nature.

I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.

The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

Having adventures comes natural to some people, said Anne serenely. You just have a gift for them or you haven't.

Anne reveled in the world of color about her. Oh, Marilla, she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill--several thrills?