Quotes about Nature

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

In May, when sea winds pierced our solitudes,I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods.

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.

There are two laws discrete,Not reconciled—Law for man, and law for thing.

For it is not meters, but a metermaking argument that makes a poem—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.