Quotes About Nature

In the midst of nature's savagery, human beings sometimes (rarely) succeed in creating small oases warmed by love. Small, exclusive, enclosed spaces governed only by love and shared subjectivity.

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.

The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

What are your main inspirations when drawing? The news, nature, other people, day-to-day events, music, sounds, art, everything is potentially inspirational. All you have to do is go outside, read a newspaper or watch contemporary television or movies. The cartoons write themselves! (2014 interview with iamhiphop)

The truth is that church by its nature is a very general concept and most people are not looking for a church; otherwise, churches would be full of visitors every week. What people are looking for is something that works for them as individuals. And that is something specific, not general.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

As the wise say, a sensible man looks after his garden, and a coward looks after his money; a just man cares about his city and a crazy man cares about the government; and a wise man studies the thickness of fern-fronds.

This tent's open to the south and north, and the roads are broad and lead to green lands and black lands and there's plenty to do in the world - sift flour, hammer iron, beat rugs, plow furrows, gossip about the neighbors, cast fishing nets - but what there is to do here is listen.

Ante los ojos de los muertos abiertos sólo para la eternidad, el topo, horadando su túnel tercamente, pasó ágil y veloz como una golondrina.

rhubarb wine and cowslip beer, cured

Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.

ordered me a sky from a florist

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

We keep the wolves outside by living well.

One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.

we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.

Snowlight, moonlight, a confusion of paw-prints.

What is Aunt Margaret made of? Bird bones and tissue paper, spun glass and straw.

My fays shall lullaby you as we cuddle up on my mattress of dandelion down.

And I could believe that it has been the same with him; he was alive from the desire of the woods.

October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.