Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Nature

Nature

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.--John Muir
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.--Ellis Peters
Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spend time wondering why nature is the way it is.--Carl Sagan (Introduction to A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking)
He who plants a tree is a servant of God.--Louis L'Amour (Big Man)
I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen,
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;
Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.--J. R. R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.--Ed Abbey
If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty, and the fields would no longer be decked, out with little wildflowers.--Saint Therese of Lisieux
If I have learned nothing else in all these months in the woods, I have thoroughly learned to keep hands off the processes of nature.-Laura Lee Davidson (A Winter of Content)
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive.--Eleanora Duse
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would we believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Nature")
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.--Margaret Atwood
In this fast paced, plastic, microchip culture, dominated by internet, T.V. and satellite dishes, we rush from place to place and often fail to find our roots in the created order. Cars speed by forests, deserts, mountains and streams, missing the "statement" these wild areas are making to us about the origins and purpose of our life. We hurry past the wild flowers, the mountains, the deer. We carry the pressures and stresses of modern life along with us.--Ewart, J. Lloyd (Inspirational Images)
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.--Jimmy Carter
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.--Euclid (in Mathematical Journey by Stanley Gudder)
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.--Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.--Jimmy Carter (An Outdoor Journal)
Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.--William Cullen Bryant
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.--Jacob Brownowski
The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world.--Anonymous
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains.--John Muir
The natural world is dynamic. From the expanding universe to the hair on a baby's head, nothing is the same from now to the next moment.--Helen Hoover ("The Waiting Hills" in The Long-Shadowed Forest)
Nature always takes her time. Great oaks don't become great overnight. They also lose a lot of leaves, branches and bark in the process of becoming great.--Andrew Matthews
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nature)
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 is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.--Henry David Thoreau (Journal January 14, 1861)
Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.--Mary Ann Brussat
Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.--Napoleon Hill
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.--Mary Webb (The Spring of Joy)
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.--John Steinbeck (Travels with Charley: In Search of America)
Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.--Thomas H. Huxley
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.--David Wagoner ("Lost")
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still slowly ripen a fruit tree, as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.--Galileo Galilei.
There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance … the chance to stand away from relationships and daily ritual … and the gift of energy. Wilderness infuses us with its own special brand of energy.--Lynn Thomas
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar
I love not Man the less, but Nature more.--Lord Byron (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage)
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.--Linda Hogan
They are much to be pitied who have not been… given a taste for nature early in life.--Jane Austin (Mansfield Park)
To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.--Miles Franklin (Childhood at Brindabella)
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.--William Blake
Twilight: A time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.--Howard Thurman
The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.--Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma)
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.--Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understanding and our hearts.--William Hazlitt
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.--Werner Heisenberg
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.--Isaac Bashevis Singer
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.--George Sand
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.--William Rotsler