Nature Quotes

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

The stars that have most glory have no rest.

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

Nature was my kindergarten.

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight.