Quotes about Nature
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
by Robert Louis Stevenson (Writer, Scottish , born in 1850) keywords: air, beauty, changes, claim, forest, hearts, makes, men, much, old, quality, renews, something, spirit, subtle, trees, upon, weary , wonderfully 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.
by Sara Teasdale (Author, American , born in 1884) keywords: beautiful, blue, children, cliff, cup, faces, fire, holding, life, looking, loveliness, sell, sings, soaring, splendid, things, up, waves , wonder Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: alive, aright, better, creature, dead, destroy, every, life, men, moose, pine, preserve, rather, than, trees, understands , will If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: bald, before, being, citizen, danger, day, days, deemed, each, earth, enterprising, half, her, his, industrious, loafer, love, making, man, off, regarded, speculator, spends, them, those, time, walks , woods Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: bear, closest, eye, her, insect, inspection, invites, lay, leaf, level, nature, our, plain, she, smallest, take, us, view , will Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: am, earth, intelligence, leaves, mould, myself, partly, shall , vegetable Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: cannot, earth, fly, god, lay, men, sky, thank, waste , well I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
by Alice Walker (Author, American , born in 1944) keywords: color, field, god, notice, off, purple, somewhere, think , walk Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
by Izaak Walton (Writer, English , born in 1593) keywords: air, art, curious, ditties, forth, furnished, hath, little, musicians, nature, nimble, shame, their, them, those , which Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
by Steven Weinberg (Scientist, American , born in 1933) keywords: chaotic, complicated, fundamentally, maybe, nature, out, then, ugly , want
