Quotes about Nature

No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts

He has revealed Himself generally to us through creation, but more specifically through the Word.

People have so great a need to reverence, to worship, to adore; it is a psychological necessity of human nature that must be taken into account.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

You can chase a bird from your porch, but you can not take away its ability to fly.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

The storm starts, when the drops start dropping When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.