Nature Quotes

Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.

You can't just let nature run wild.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.