Quotes About Nature

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

In all aspects of my life, I try to reduce my impact on the earth - that includes snowboarding, as well.

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

The appreciation of life does not require wealth or plenty. It requires only gratitude for the beauty of the world.

There's nothin' in life that's worth doin', if it cain't be done from a horse.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.