Quotes about Nature
Nature's great masterpiece, an Elephant, the only harmless great thing; the giant of beasts.
- John Donne
Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.
- John Donne
The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life.
- Dennis Prager
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.
- George Eliot
What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!
- Henry David Thoreau
We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
- Octavia Butler
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
- Thomas Jefferson
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
- Heinrich Heine
I have great faith in a seed.
- Henry David Thoreau
Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?
- AA Milne
I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.
- Henry David Thoreau