Quotes about Nature

I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sat reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts, Bring sad thoughts to the mind." William Wordsworth

How does the meadow-flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

Poetry is the image of man and nature

Long ago, in the infancy of civilization, man learned that there were drugs in Nature, cell products of the growth or transformation of "our brother organisms, the plants," by whose agency pain was turned to pleasure. By the aid of these outside influences he could clear "today of past regrets and future fears," and strike out from the sad "calendar unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday.

The uglier the storm the lovelier the rainbow.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

All this under a magnificent blue sky.

I don't want anybody treating me as a "person" rather than as a woman. Our sexual differences are the terms of our life, and to obscure them in any way is to weaken the very fabric of life itself. When they are lost, we are lost.

The reality is people have always died in large numbers in natural disasters such as avalanches, earthquakes, and tornadoes.