Quotes About Nature

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

And once Father Lucas said to me, 'Be simple, Matthew, life is a simple book, and an open book, read and be simple as the beasts in the field; just being miserable isn't enough -- you've got to know how.' So I got to thinking and I said to myself, 'This is a terrible thing that Father Lucas has put on me -- be simple like the beasts and yet think and harm nobody.

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible--it is a form of immortality

A Girl is gone! A Girl is lost! A simple Rustic Maiden but Yesterday swung upon the Pasture Gate, with Knowledge nowhere, yet is now, to-day, no better than her Mother, and her Mother's Mother before her! Soiled! Despoiled! Handled! Mauled! Rumpled! Rummaged! Ransacked! No purer than Fish in Sea, no sweater than Bird on Wing, no better than Beasts of Earth!

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible - its a form of immortality.

Love of two things often makes one thing right. Think of the fish racing the sea, their love of air and water turning them like wheels, their tails and teeth biting the water, their spines curved round the air.

Suffering is the decay of the heart, all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all, as the pauper is the rudiment of a city, knowing something of the city, which the city, for its own destiny, wants to forget. So the lover must got against nature to find love.

I put my hand on the poor bitch of a cow and her hide was running water under my hand, like water tumbling down from Lahore, jerking against my hand as if she wanted to go, standing still in one spot; and I thought, there are directions and speeds that no one has calculated, for believe it or not that cow had gone somewhere very fast that we didn't know of, and yet was still standing there.

She was broad and tall, and though her skin was the skin of a child, there could be seen coming, early in her life, the design that was to be the weather-beaten grain of her face, that wood in the work; the tree coming forward in her, an undocumented record of time.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

Samo su sitne ptice Å¡arene. Gavrani su crni. Ni orlovi se ne kite.

Boriti se može protiv careva, tirana, papa, lopova i medveda, pitona i krokodila. Si?ušnu vašku zaludno je ubijati. I smešno je i bezumno ubijati vaši.

According to classical aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly.

Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

Rose doesn't like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun from which we get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts.

In the garden I tend to drop my thoughts here and there. To the flowers I whisper the secrets I keep and the hopes I breathe. I know they are there to eavesdrop for the angels.

A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

do not view mountains from the scale of human thought

In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.

Don't forget, for every drop of rain a flower grows!