Nature Quotes

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

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

The world is always in movement.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.