Quotes about Nature
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
- Khalil Gibran
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
- Virginia Woolf
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
- William Faulkner
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.
- Ronald Reagan
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.
- DH Lawrence
A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.
- John Bunyan
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
- Henry David Thoreau
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
- Virginia Woolf