quote: nature

  • I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. – Henry David Thoreau

  • Personally, I would not give a fig for any man’s religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility. – S. Parkes Cadman

  • Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark than a moral. – John Burroughs

  • Only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only after the last tree has been cut down, only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. – Unknown

  • The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. – Zeno of Citium

  • In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. – Margaret Atwood

  • They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. – Jane Austen

  • The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. – Wendell Berry

  • Our roots are in the dark, the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing? Instead of around and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in a sky full of orbiting spy eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below;…

  • The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of…

  • Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is “mere”. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little…

  • If you can approach the world’s complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not…