Quotes on The Wild Nature

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

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

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

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 sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

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.

To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one's primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it

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

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses_x000D_ are still truly adjusted to each other.

It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed.

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

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

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

I love not man the less, but Nature more.