Quotes About Nature

Great. I'm with the hottest man I've ever known and raccoons have crawled through my hair and settled under my eyes.

coastline was, with the tides

Fog is a cloud on the ground.

Bear's toenails clicking up

The sea is better than a mother. You can love your mother, and she still might leave you. You can love or hate the sea, but it will always be there. Forever. The sea has been the center of her life. It has nurtured her and stolen from her, but it has never left.

All the time, I looked out our lattice window. I watched the birds fly by. I followed the clouds on their travels. I studied the moon as it grew larger, then shrank. So much happened outside my window that I almost forgot what was happening inside that room.

If fire doesn't raze the mountain, the land will not be fertile.

Rice is to nourish," A-ma says. "Tea is to heal. Always remember that food is medicine, and medicine is food. If you take care of the trees, the trees will take care of you.

We were to be like long vines with entwined roots, like trees that stand a thousand years, like a pair of mandarin ducks mated for life

You can love your mother, and she still might leave you. You can love or hate the sea, but it will always be there. Forever. The sea has been the center of her life. It has nurtured her and stolen from her, but it has never left.

I have inherited fragrance of classic books. Drilling the wall for light, hair tied to a beam in fear of drowsing, I wrest from nature excellence in letters.

The fallen leaves return to the root.

My mother had died in the sea, but we could never forget that it gave us life.

Deep love-true-heart love-must grow. Back then I didn't yet understand the burning kind of love, so instead I thought about the rice paddies I used to see on my daily walks down to the river with my brother when I still had all my milk teeth. Maybe I could make our love grow like a farmer made his crop to grow-through hard work, unwavering will, and the blessings of nature. How funny that I can remember that even now! Waaa! I knew so little about life, but I knew enough to think like a farmer.

And it confused me to think that the cloven-footed ones could have so many marvelous creations.

winter gone, mountains clear, water sparkles.

Hyacinth bean and papayas, long vines, deep roots. Palm trees outside the garden walls, with deep roots, stand a thousand years.

it was like watching a silk worm's death-tender and subtle.

How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?

I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.

spring comes, flowers fragrant, bird sings.

The lotus symbolizes purity, because it rises out of the mud but looks pristine.

People are shaped by the earth and water around them.

But when people suggested the haenyeo start using oxygen tanks, she, along with other divers around the island, refused. "Everything we do must be natural," she'd told the collective, "otherwise we'll harvest too much, deplete our wet fields, and earn nothing." There, again, balance.