Quotes about Nature
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
by Saint Basil (Saint, Greek , born in 330) keywords: abundance, away, brings, curses, drive, falls, head, his, hunger, knows, man, many, rain , upon Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
by Henry Ward Beecher (Clergyman, American , born in 1813) keywords: ever, flowers, forgot, god, into, made, put, soul, sweetest , things The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
by Eric Berne (Psychologist, American , born in 1910) keywords: birds, boy, concerned, hear, jay, little, longer, moment, see, sing, sparrow, them , which 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.
by Wendell Berry (Poet, American , born in 1934) keywords: am, any, bound, climbed, day, ground, healing, heat, into, orchard, own, place, planted, public, shadow, trees, up, vines, where , woods To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
by Wendell Berry (Poet, American , born in 1934) keywords: cherish, earth, foster, hope, legitimate, only, our, remains, renewal , survival 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.
by Hal Borland (Author, American , born in 1900) keywords: awesome, color, dancing, fire, flame, forest, full, heart, least, magnitude, single, tongue, tree, warm , woodland You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
by Hal Borland (Author, American , born in 1900) keywords: accuse, bird, challenge, ideology, squirrel, subversion, suspicious, tree , violet What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
by Hal Boylekeywords: any, anywhere, doubt, else, get, go, going, makes, restful, river, sure, want , where Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
by Rupert Brooke (Poet, English , born in 1887) keywords: breathless, flung, grass, hill, kissed, laughed, lovely, sun, us , windy 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.
by Pam Brownkeywords: come, ever, every, glory, last, lived, never, person, see, spring, springs, then, will , yours
