Quotes about nature
nature important facts
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us. Neil deGrasse Tyson
nature travel ocean
I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter. John Muir
nature reality leaving
If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.
nature animal men
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.
nature mountain landscape
To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.
nature wind rivers
Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
nature environmental may
In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.
nature men care
Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
nature heart rocks
Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.
nature flower power
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
nature rocks air
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
nature wind water
I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.
nature eye perfect
These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.
nature morning sleep
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.
nature adventure dark
The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
nature adventure men
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news
nature adventure garden
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
nature i-hate-you heart
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
nature adventure garden
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
nature flower adventure
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
nature sea tree
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
nature hiking climbing
The mountains are calling and I must go.
nature heart garden
As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".
nature technology men
More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery. John W. Gardner
nature world deposits
If the world were a big apartment, we wouldn't get our deposit back. John Ross
nature light roots
My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, - happier if it needed no help of mine, - this was the essential love of Nature in me, this the root of all that I have usefully become, and the light of all that I have rightly learned. John Ruskin
nature art mean
Nature is always mysterious and secret in her use of means; and art is always likest her when it is most inexplicable.
nature gambling neighbor
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
nature two taste
In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste. John Steinbeck
nature orange rocks
Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.
nature men fishing
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
nature garden beauty-of-the-earth
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.
nature men years
The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.