Quotes about nature
nature wind rivers
Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines? John Muir
nature environmental may
In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own. John Muir
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. John Muir
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. John Muir
nature flower power
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. John Muir
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. John Muir
nature wind water
I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains. John Muir
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. John Muir
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. John Muir
nature adventure dark
The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. John Muir
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 John Muir
nature adventure garden
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir
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. John Muir
nature adventure garden
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir
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. John Muir
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. John Muir
nature hiking climbing
The mountains are calling and I must go. John Muir
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". John Muir
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. John Ruskin
nature gambling neighbor
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor. John Ruskin
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. John Steinbeck
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. John Steinbeck
nature garden beauty-of-the-earth
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. John Steinbeck
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. John Steinbeck
nature spring break-through
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.
nature kindness men
A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature. Nicolas Chamfort
nature flower book
If only we know, boss, what the stones and rain and flowers say. Maybe they call-call us-and we don't hear them. When will people's ears open, boss? When shall we have our eyes open to see? When shall we open our arms to embrace everything-stones, rain, flowers, and people? What do you think about that, boss? And what do your books have to say about that? Nikos Kazantzakis
nature thinking tasks
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.' Niels Bohr
nature real essence
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience. Niels Bohr