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Quotes About Nature

...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.
~ Vikas Swarup
Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
~ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved
~ Charles Darwin
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.
~ Joseph Addison
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
~ Karel Capek
We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?
~ Lewis Thomas
There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
~ Mary Oliver
Essentially, all life depends upon the soil
~ Charles Kellogg
Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.
~ David Attenborough
Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.
~ Douglas Horton
The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Life is a picnic on a precipice.
~ W. H. Auden
Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.
~ Wallace Stevens
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
~ William Blake
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
~ Anamika Mishra
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us
~ Dennis Banks
We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.
~ Luigi Pirandello
Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered.
~ Mark Nepo
Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.
~ David Hobson
Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
~ George William Curtis