Quotes about Nature

I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

For to be happy in this world is to be well deceived concerning it.

Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavor.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

In every joy that crowns our days, in every pain that tries our frame, our minds should know the things they love.

Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The difference between a killer and a hero is just a matter of context.

I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair.

In nature, all things are fluid, changeable, and in perpetual metamorphosis.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Gardening is not a rational act.

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

A novel captures essence that is sometimes more real than reality itself.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My garden of life may not be perfect, but it is mine.

The sun just touched the morning; the morning, happy thing.

Nature is the silent witness to the beauty and wonder of life.

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

Not all who own woods love them; not all who love them own them.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

And then, at the end of the longest day, the inexorable nights closed in.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Rivers will sing you songs of peace. The forests will whisper to you secrets and the stars will give you strength.

The Earth has enough for everyone's needs, but not for everyone's greed.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—True Poems flee.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else.

And 'tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes.

We should not mind so small a flower—Except it quiet bring.

A light exists in spring, not present on the year at any other period.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Nature's beauty is a silent conversation between the earth and the soul.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

He who contemplates the depths of the heavens does not tremble at the darkness of the abyss.

Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.