Quotes on Nature

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

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.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.