Quotes About Nature

The three things Aristotle couldn't understand: the work of the bees, the coming and going of the tide, and the mind of a woman. —Irish Triad

What we call life is really a form of water, activated and animated not by a divine principle but the energetic cosmos around it.

It scares me, suddenly, to know I can't remember how home sounds. Not one bird call, nor the water over rocks. There's so much you can't save by writing down.

Die Jungen verzogen sich beeindruckt, und Angelika verband Lottes Wunde mit Ahornblättern, weil Lotte es so aus Indianergeschichten kannte. Von da an war sie Angelikas Leibwächterin.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

Unlike depression, melancholy does not have a specific cause. It is an aspect of temperament, perhaps genetically based. One may emerge from the hypo, as Lincoln did, but melancholy is an indelible part of one's nature.

We are all creatures of the stars.

Okay. I could her deb wailing-in my head. This is the Lowcountry, Steve. That's how life goes around here.

It's a funny thing about a good porch overlooking the ocean. It was great in hot weather when you needed shade. It was good when it rained to be close to nature but stay dry and safe. It was soothing in the dark, or it could be a place to whisper secrets late at night. So

Dorothea Benton Frank

Dorothea Benton Frank

Dorothea Benton Frank

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.

Our spirituality is our capacity to relate to God, to other human beings, and to the natural world. Through these relationships, we give meaning to our experience and attune our hearts and minds to the deepest dimensions of reality.

People have so great a need to reverence, to worship, to adore; it is a psychological necessity of human nature that must be taken into account.

Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.

The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.

It's so Quite around here, I'm sure I heard a Bird Fart!

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, centered, and wondering what on earth happened.

If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly, I'd be sorry. But I value things unpossessed. The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

Money is only congealed snow.