Nature Quotes

289. The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

^{Anton Chekhov}

290. 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.

^{Jules Verne}

291. Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.

^{Ambrose Bierce}

292. To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

^{George Santayana}

293. 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.

^{Wendell Berry}

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

^{Jean Giraudoux}

295. There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

^{Alfred Austin}

296. Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

^{Arthur C. Clarke}

297. Sunlight is painting.

^{Nathaniel Hawthorne}

298. As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

^{Woody Allen}

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

^{Augustus Hare}

300. I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

^{Annie Leibovitz}

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

^{Hosea Ballou}

302. A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

^{Jim Woodring}

303. If you violate Nature’s laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

^{Luther Burbank}

304. The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

^{Henry Wadsworth Longfellow}

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

^{Victor Hugo}

306. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

^{E. O. Wilson}

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

^{Roy Bean}

308. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.

^{Antoine Lavoisier}

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

^{Alexander Pope}

310. 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.

^{Roger Tory Peterson}

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

^{Orison Swett Marden}

312. 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.

^{Joseph Conrad}

313. Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

^{Langston Hughes}

314. The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

^{Francis Bacon}

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

^{Thomas Carlyle}

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

^{Alice Walker}

317. Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

^{Samuel Butler}

318. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

^{Albert Einstein}

319. Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

^{John Lubbock}

320. He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

^{Samuel Johnson}

321. 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.

^{Hal Borland}

322. Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

^{Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}

323. Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

^{William Bartram}

324. 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.

^{John Muir}

325. 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!

^{Edward Abbey}

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

^{H. P. Lovecraft}

327. The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

^{Joseph Franklin Rutherford}

328. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

^{Claude Monet}

329. My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

^{Hamlin Garland}

330. Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

^{David Gerrold}

331. How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

^{John Burroughs}

332. The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

^{William Cullen Bryant}

333. Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.

^{Nathaniel Hawthorne}

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

^{Pedro Calderon de la Barca}

335. We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

^{Clarence Day}

336. Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

^{Gustav Mahler}