Quotes on Love And Nature

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

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

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.

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

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.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in 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.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

The sun shines not on us but in us.