Quotes About Nature

Across the river there was a low red and gold grove of sassafras with hills of dark blue trees behind it and an occasional pine jutting over the skyline. Behind, in the distance, the city rose like a cluster of warts on the side of the mountain. The birds revolved downward and dropped lightly in the top of the highest pine and sat hunch-shouldered as if they were supporting the sky.

The air was so quiet he could hear the broken pieces of the sun knocking in the water.

In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.

He said that a man had to escape to the country to see the world whole and that he wished he lived in a desolate place like this where he could see the sun go down every evening like God made it to do.

Man is nothing but a coagulation of mud and shit ... equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or crab-louse

Het is misschien monsterlijke hoogmoed, maar de duivel hale me als ik niet evenveel sympathie voor de luizen die een bedelaar opvreten, als voor de bedelaar zelf. Ik ben er trouwens even zeker van dat de mensen evenmin elkaars broeders zijn als de blaadjes in het bos gelijk zijn.: ze worden samen door de wind geteisterd, dat is alles.

Naviknuta da gleda sve mirno oko sebe, tražila je nešto što je burno. More je volela samo zbog njegovih bura, zelenilo samo na proplancima me?u ruševinama. Bilo joj je potrebno da iz stvari izvla?i kao neku li?nu dobit; i odbacivala je kao nekorisno sve što nije doprinosilo neposrednom zasi?avanju njena srca, - budu?i da je bila više sentimentalne nego umetni?ke prirode, tražila uzbu?enja, a ne predele.

I can't believe that our body, composed as it is of mud and shit and equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or the crab-louse, contains anything pure and immaterial

I am not a fan of being in the sea. I like being in a boat - sailing.

I'm a big animal fanatic.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

I grew up on a farm.

On a farm, you can get very bored.

I grew up on a farm. The worst-looking chickens are the best layers. The ones that are the scraggliest... those are usually the ones that are really cooking.

Country life is different from city life, but I think it was good for me. Working on the farm, I got a balance in my life.

I think it is good to grow up on a farm, with nature, with animals and everything when you are young.

I'd love to have a farm and some space for my kids.

I was on a farm basically from the age of 3 until I left for college - really thought that was all I was ever going to do.

When you grow up on a farm, you grow up fast.