Quotes about Nature

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

Hide me from day's garish eye, while the bee with honied thigh, that at her flowery work doth sing, and the waters murmuring with such consort as they keep, entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

I've never stared out at the ocean while I've made a record before - that enhances things in a strange way.

Genesis 2 is not speaking primarily to Adam's experience of being lonely as much as it is revealing his nature as the person God created him to be. Because God created a communal being—someone designed for relationships—creation is incomplete without a suitable companion.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.