Quotes about Nature

Hide me from day's garish eye, while the bee with honied thigh, that at her flowery work doth sing, and the waters murmuring with such consort as they keep, entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

Genesis 2 is not speaking primarily to Adam's experience of being lonely as much as it is revealing his nature as the person God created him to be. Because God created a communal being—someone designed for relationships—creation is incomplete without a suitable companion.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.

As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.

The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air. A grasshopper began to chirp by the wall, and like a blue thread a long, thin dragonfly floated past on its brown gauze wings. Lord Henry felt as if he could hear Basil Hallward's heart beating, and wondered what was coming.

We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.