Quotes about Nature

...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

If it never rained, nothing would grow.

There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

Yes, He could have. He could let us go through all of our life, bundlin' us and shelterin' us from anything and everything that would hurt us. I could do that with my petunias, Josh. I could build a box around them and keep them from the wind and the rain, the crawlers and the bees. What would happen iffen I did that, Josh?" I jest shrugged. The answer was too obvious. "They'd never bear flowers," said Auntie Lou.

They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars.

We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.

And for a long while they stood side by side without speaking, each seeing the other in every line of the landscape.