Nature Quotes

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.