Nature Quotes - Page 9

• The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Eye

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.147, University of Arizona Press

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  Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

  George Eliot

  Motivational, Spiritual, Dog

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

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  We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Important, Atoms, Facts

  "The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe, As Told By Neil DeGrasse Tyson", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

  Joseph Addison

  Miracle, Quality, Atoms

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder: Selections from the Tatler. Selections from the Spectator [no.5-150”, p.106

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• All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

  Toni Morrison

  Memories, Reality, Water Of Life

  Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). “What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is a great deal of human nature in man.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Deals, Humans

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.231, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.

  Sally Carrighar

  Real, Flower, Color

  Sally Carrighar (1974). “Home to the wilderness: a personal journey”, Viking Pr

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• In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Real, Sadness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Feet, Long

  Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.28, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

  Linda Hogan

  Love, Spiritual, Healing

  Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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  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.

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspiring, Respect, Ocean

  A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

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• Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Garden, Views

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.

  Wayne Dyer

  Beauty, Spiritual, Appreciation

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 27, 2016

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• The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Ignorance, Animal, Men

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• In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Determination

  'Some Reasons Why' (1881) pt. 8 'The New Testament' in 'The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll' (1915) vol. 2, p. 315

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• Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

  George Washington Carver

  Good Morning, Beauty, Beautiful

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Mind, Dawn, Environment

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Humility, Garden

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.379, Rajpal & Sons

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• Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

  Theodore Roethke

  Attitude, Flower, Sunshine

  Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.40, Copper Canyon Press

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• We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together in nature will always exist.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Memories, Adventure

  Richard Louv (2008). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.316, Algonquin Books

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• It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

  William Penn

  Environment, Natural, Reasonable

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

  Thomas Fuller

  Love, Science, Earth Day

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 2248, 1732.

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• I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Happiness, Gratitude

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