Nature Quotes

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

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

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

All nature wears one universal grin.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.