Quotes About Nature

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

The Snow-drop, Winter's timid child, Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

pure air, sunshine, properly prepared food, nonpoisonous herbs, water treatments, pure water to drink, abstemiousness (moderation), foods not robbed of their life-giving properties during manufacture, and cleanliness of body and premises.

The fundamental principle of true healing consists of a return to natural habits of living.

If I want a fucked with HEA, I'll go outside and talk to people.

Today they are still strong and self-sufficient, not wilting flowers waiting for a man to help. They shoe their own horses and peel logs and build homes and get anything done that needs doing. They are feminine and wild as a mountain meadow.

I would try to be as bold as that blue waterfall that had the audacity to liberate itself from stone.

You hope your seeds will take root and grow. So,

Taxes grow without rain.

The essence of a thing is found only in its absence.

animals like bears or cougars. It was a marvel they hadn't yet seen anything more vicious

God made Labrador in six days. And on the seventh, he threw rocks at it. —Old Newfoundland saying

Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is maddeningly uneven, asymmetrical, & unfair.

After Benjamin Franklin read Jefferson's draft, he picked up his quill, scratched out the words "sacred and undeniable," and suggested that "these truths" were, instead, "self-evident." This was mroe than a quibble. Truths that are sacred and undeniable are God-given and divine, the stuff of religion. Truths that are self-evident are laws of nature, empirical and observable, the stuff of science.

The telling of history is, by its very nature, controversial, contentious, and contested; it advances by debate. This doesn't make history squishy, vague, and irrelevant. It makes it picky, demanding, and vital.

For every wizened female tortoise there's a male tortoise who thinks she's irresistible.

The spiders, honeybees, yellow jackets, and mud daubers: these insects still speak - a language that is older than humans. The buffalo, elk, wolf, coyote -they still talk too. It's we, the people, who have forgotten how to listen. [Osage Spider Story, an Osage Legend, told by Archie Mason, Jr]

We do not always need to "understand" or interpret dreams to receive their gifts to heart and soul. Rather, we can circumambulate them, respect them, let their images feed our imaginations and lead us onward, just as a glimpse of ocean or lake renews and orients and refreshes us on a long drive.

Meanwhile, we stooped and picked the sharp plants

Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks.

the looniness of the long distance runner - pounding along country lanes, so anxious to lop off seconds he never stops to marvel at a field of buttercups or a flock of geese against the sky.