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Quotes About Nature

Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.
~ William O. Douglas
A life without love is like a year without spring.
~ Octavian Paler
Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.
~ John von Neumann
What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.
~ Kate Bush
Civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.
~ Ernst Haeckel
Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
~ Tamora Pierce
Magic is not always serious or solemn. It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.
~ Scott Cunningham
But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope?-so much is in bud.
~ Denise Levertov
All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.
~ Brian Jacques
But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.
~ Pam Houston
I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
Life is nasty, brutish, and short
~ Thomas Hobbes
Of all exercises, walking is the best.
~ Thomas Jefferson
In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?
~ Pablo Neruda
Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life.
~ Henry Beston
I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
~ Leni Riefenstahl
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
~ George Washington Carver
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
~ Alan Watts
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~ Laozi
The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
~ Edward Abbey
You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life
~ Fred Bear