Quotes About Nature

The Answer" Will we speak to each other making the grass bend as if a wind were before us, will our way be as graceful, as substantial as the movement of something moving so gently. We break things into pieces like walls we break ourselves into hearing them fall just to hear it.

The tree cannot walk, all its going must be violence. They listen to the saw cut, the roots scream. And in eating even a stalk of celery there will be pathetic screaming.

To be in love is like going out- side to see what kind of day it is.

We all know there's many kinds of life that live in the air, on the earth, or in the water. And we, poor mortals, have not the power to understand the like of some of them.

the storm hit the back of the house. The roof was torn off instantly, and the walls smashed in. The whole building was ripped out of the ground and folded over onto itself. Josh saw the open doorway close around his mother like a mouth, swallowing her out of sight, and then the whole building was blown apart into pieces and snatched away on the wind.

the walls of the cabin burst outwards in a sheet of flame. Logs were thrown high into the sky, spinning end over end before they crashed back down to earth

Gods have a way of sprouting from vacant lots.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

All dogs are born with a death sentence, they hunt for us, and then they are gone. They do not get to stay either young or strong forever. It's an old truth but still we have to relearn it with each dog. Rick Bass, in the story Old Dog

Fall was slipping quietly into winter

I'd classify myself as a Buddhist. I believed that every living thing came from the earth and was to be respected

Me and the crickets've been here since five, Professor. You know what they say. Early bird catches the worm.

His ego was just too big, almost as if he were genetically predisposed to be an ass.

He used to say that plants are like children." "Really? How so?" "They come from a seed, sprout limbs, grow taller, stronger—but you have to nourish them." "Do

odor that reminded him of the smell of wet wood. "We

He continued a quarter mile through heavy scrub oak, pine, and aspen. At a bend to the left, a light shimmered in the tree branches. Buzz drove toward it, onto a gravel drive leading to a double-wide. Before he'd parked, a man pushed out the front door and descended three wooden stairs, crossing a dirt yard cluttered with unstacked firewood, scrap metal, and an empty clothesline.

She treated strange dogs the way she treated the ocean. She gave each a healthy dose of respect and never turned her back on either.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

I saw that — that black thing squatting like an ape among the branches, leering down at me.

Let him make rimes for the vultures.

up in the glade, and notch an arrow.