Nature Quotes

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud...

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's mora...

The afternoon had passed to a ghostly gray. She was struck by the immensity of things, so much water...

When I work, a lot of times I have to lose weight, and I do that, but in my regular life I was not e...

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in ...

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's ...

Schelling's God is the totality of Nature struggling towards consciousness, and Man is as far as the...

I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down t...

He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the tree...

Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and...

Her bedroom window overlooked the garden, and now and then, usually when she was "having a bad spell...

The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no ...

Nature is interested in only two things—to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you su...

To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. ...

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and...

I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mout...

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the univ...

This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than lov...

Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the l...

The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beas...

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and...

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a uni...

Nature like a kind and smiling mother lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue ...

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the...

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...