Quotes on Earth And Nature

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.