Quotes about Nature

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.

That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods…

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man...

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.... these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty.

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard...

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Every man is where he is by the law of his being;

As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.

Intellectual achievements are the result of thought con- secrated to the search for knowledge or for the beauti- ful and true in nature. Such achievements may some- times be connected with vanity and ambition, but they are not the outcome of those characteristics. They are the natural outgrowth of long and arduous effort, and of pure and unselfish thoughts.

The animal in man can never respond to and know the divine; only the divine can respond to the divine.

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.