Nature Quotes

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so litt...

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reve...

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance and her sunlight, from...

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no l...

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...

I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

and it was the moment between six and seven when every flower-roses, carnations, irises, lilac-glows...

(June had drawn out every leaf on the trees. The mothers of Pimlico gave suck to their young. Messag...

There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the ...

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural...

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are oft...

For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by usin...

It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that tw...

. . . distant views seemed to outlast by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communin...

And now as if the cleaning and the scrubbing and the scything and the mowing had drowned it there ro...

Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to c...

It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black...

No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palat...

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

Nature has always had more force than education.

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: t...

Men argue nature acts.

Men argue. Nature acts.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindl...

Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy.

Oh, listen. Listen!' A sound like a big crowd a good way off, excited and shouting, getting closer. ...

The forces of blind life that work across this hilltop are as irresistible as she said they were, th...

Marian’s eyes absolutely blaze. To meet them is to have a shock of contact as if they were electrica...

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ...

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn ...

The imagination is man's power over nature.

And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling g...

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I loveIf you want me again look for me under yo...

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found t...

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the wo...

When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its show...

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow fro...

Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so lon...

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of ot...

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, pe...

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus ...

Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with bright aerial tints; her valleys...

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and a...

Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land un...

The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that ev...

I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-pro...

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of surviv...

I’ve come down from the skylike some damned ghost, delayedtoo long…To the abandoned fieldsthe trees ...

How to be a Poet (to remind myself)Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upo...

Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...

Once the creator was removed from the creation, divinity became only a remote abstraction, a social ...

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, t...

If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to...

Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in i...

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...

...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...

It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in thi...

While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done...

We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and ...

I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral bo...

We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the presen...

But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent socie...

We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We ...

Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, ...

I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into...

The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least s...

I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic e...

Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love...

Nature's voice and Nature's beauty---God's soothing and purifying angels of the soul---speak to me m...

The clouds had gathered, within the last half-hour. The light was dull; the distance was dim. The lo...

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void i...

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...

Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,...

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in...

I sat down in the middle of the garden, where snakes could scarcely approach unseen, and leaned my b...

I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anyt...

After that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air. Every morning I wakened with a f...

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to ...

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of...

To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, ine...

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with ...

Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and ...

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves refl...

Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things - that religion which 'sees God ...

Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like...

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

Out of the firelight everything was black and silver, black island, rocks and trees carved cleanly o...

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of ...

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt...

The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to b...

The garden is a miraculous place, and anything can happen on a beautiful moonlit night.