Quotes about Nature

In the night the eyes are partly closed, or retire into the head. Other senses take the lead. The walker is guided as well by the sense of smell. Every plant and field and forest emits its odor now, —swamp-pink in the meadow, and tansy in the road; and there is the peculiar dry scent of corn which has begun to show its tassels. The senses both of hearing and smelling are more alert. We hear the tinkling of rills which we never detected before.

The natural remedy is to be found in the proportion which the night bears to the day.

Some would find fault with the morning-red, if they ever got up early enough.

The poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?

There can be no very black melancholy for him who has his senses still and lives in the midst of nature.

I do not refuse the Blue-Pearmain, I fill my pockets on each side; and as I retrace my steps in the frosty eve, being perhaps four or five miles from home, I eat one first from this side, and then from that, to keep my balance.

I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.

When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left. But alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear. It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

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