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Quotes About Nature

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
~ Chief Seattle
Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
~ D.T. Suzuki
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
~ Joni Mitchell
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
~ Jack London
Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
~ Stewart Udall
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould
At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.
~ Norman Maclean
There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows
~ Isak Dinesen
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
~ Jack London
Three most important things in life, surf, surf and surf.
~ Jack O'Neill
Gather the roses of life today.
~ Pierre de Ronsard
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
~ Barbara Hepworth
When gloaming treads the heels of day And birds sit cowering on the spray, Along the flowery hedge I stray, To meet mine ain dear somebody.
~ Robert Tannahill
Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
~ Sitting Bull
A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.
~ Edwin Way Teale
Art comes from life, not from the studio
~ Marina Abramovic
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
~ George Santayana
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
~ Henry Beston
Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
~ Jimmy Carter
There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
~ Charles Darwin
When the ranch is in peace, no other life is more perfect.
~ Charles Goodnight
The life and simple beauty of it is too good to pass up
~ Christopher McCandless
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
~ E. O. Wilson