Quotes about Nature

Growing is a patient thing, lad," Daniel explained. "You must give all living things time to adjust to their new surroundings, their new soil, then time to grow, as well.

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots. Religion may be a flower, but people are its roots.

Gender is the remaining caste system that still cuts deep enough, and spreads wide enough, to be confused with the laws of nature. To uncover the difference between what is and what could be, we may need the "Aha!" that comes from exchanging subject for object, the flash of recognition that starts with a smile, the moment of changed viewpoint that turns the world upside down.

The simple right to reproductive freedom—to sexuality as an expression that is separable from reproduction—is basic to restoring women's power, the balance between women and men, and a balance between humans and nature.

Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.

All the beauty in the earth bears the fingerprint of the master creator.

Oh, how the strife and trouble of daily life receded from my view, and lessened in the distance... What voices spoke from out the thundering water; what faces, faded from the earth, looked out upon me from its gleaming depths; what Heavenly promise glistened in those angels' tears, the drops of many hues, that showered around, and twined themselves about the gorgeous arches which the changing rainbows made!

I had to have company — I was made for it, I think — so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways; they never look sour, they never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got one, and they are always ready for a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose. I think they are perfect gentlemen.

Well, the trip from then on across Arizona and east of Los Angeles was just one Oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there. I like Arizona.

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day! Every leaf speaks bliss to me, Fluttering from the autumn tree...

And she was always cold toward bats, too, and could not bear them; and yet I think a bat is as friendly a bird as there is.