Quotes about Nature
I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.
— Isabel Allende
To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the skies, Til the dappled dawn doth rise.
— John Milton
The flowering of geometry.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
— St. John Chrysostom
Human nature, if it healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
— Oswald Chambers
I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.
— Helen Keller
Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
— John Milton
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night, I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
— Walt Whitman
A hedge between keeps friendships green.
— Anonymous
The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.
— William Wordsworth