Quotes about Nature

What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life

What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

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

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

That the earth produces, or is capable of producing, enough to give decent sustenance to everyone—not of food alone, but of everything else we need. For everything is produced from the earth.

I think that unless we know more about machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life; we are not able to enjoy the trees, the birds, the flowers, the green fields, the sky and the nature to the fullest (~a little edited *_^*).

I think that unless we know more about machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life; we are not able to enjoy the trees, the birds, the flowers, the sky and the nature to the fullest (~a little edited *_^*).

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.