nature
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘nature’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on…
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“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” -Iris Murdoch
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“Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.” -Gerard Manley Hopkins
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“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.” -Mao Zedong
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“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.” -Sara Teasdale
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“There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.” -Don DeLillo
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“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.” -John Fowles
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“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” -Jean Giraudoux
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“The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.” -William Ellery Channing
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“There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.” -Annie Dillard
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“The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.” -Georges Simenon
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“In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them.” -Aldo Leopold
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“I’m very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.” -Norman MacCaig
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“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.” -Andy Goldsworthy
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“Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.” -Antonio Porchia
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“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” -Theodore Roethke
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“Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.” -David Gerrold
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“Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.” -Izaak Walton
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“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
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“You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.” -Hal Borland
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“Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.” -Rupert Brooke
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“Birds have wings they’re free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.” -Roger Tory Peterson
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“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.” -Jean Paul
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“The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations – each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.” -Ruth Bernhard
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“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.” -Willa Cather
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“Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.” -Saint Basil
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“Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she’s going to come around and whack you. You’ve got to be prepared.” -Geraldo Rivera
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“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.” -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.” -Sandra Day O’Connor
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“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.” -Joseph Conrad
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“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.” -Diane Ackerman
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“It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.” -Cyril Connolly
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“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
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“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.” -Doug Larson
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“Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.” -Edward Steichen
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“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.” -Thomas Moore
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“A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.” -Anne Bronte
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“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” -Hans Christian Anderson
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“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
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“The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.” -Joseph Wood Krutch
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“For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.” -Pam Brown
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“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” -Gerard De Nerval
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“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.” -Walter Scott
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“Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.” -John Burroughs
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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.” -Langston Hughes
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“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.” -Emily Dickinson
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“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” -Russell Baker
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“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.” -Thomas Browne
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“In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.” -Charles Lindbergh
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“Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” -Satchel Paige
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“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.” -Anton Chekhov
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“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours.’” -Robert Byrne
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“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” -E. B. White
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“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.” -e. e. cummings
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“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.” -George Washington Carver
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“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.” -John Lubbock
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“I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” -Roger Miller
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“I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’” -Robin Williams
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“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
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“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.” -Richard Bach
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“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.” -Thomas Merton
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“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” -Carl Reiner
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“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” -Martin Luther
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“It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” -Frederick Douglass
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“Birds sing after a storm why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?” -Rose Kennedy
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“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” -Moliere
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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” -Winston Churchill
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“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” -Khalil Gibran
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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” -Carl Sagan
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“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” -Lou Holtz
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -Anais Nin
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“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” -Dale Carnegie
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“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” -Socrates
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