Quotes about Nature

I am interested in cultivating the fundamentally holy nature of all language, including most definitely the casual, spontaneous , unselfconscious conversational language.

I am trying to teach my mind to bear the long, slow growth of the fields, and to sing of its passing while it waits.

What Berry sees in his farm as a form, I see in Scripture as a form. Think of the farm as an organic whole, but with boundaries so that you are aware and stay in touch with all the interrelations: the house and barn, the horses and the chickens, the weather of sun and rain, the food prepared in the house and the work done in the fields, the machinery and the tools, the seasons. There are steady, relaxed rhythms in place.

Blossoming flowers look beautiful before they're cut or picked, but without soil or water they wither more quickly than grass.

A strong breeze is natures way of blowing away our sorrows.

We're not supposed to outlive our children. It goes against nature's plan of things.

Look," she said, smiling out at the trees, the sky, and the birds flying by. "That's life out there. See how it's movin'? Even the leaves on the trees is movin'. Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.

Her laughter was a wondrous, liquid thing that splashed across my face, over the toes of my shoes, and into the grass.

It's always been my long-held belief that eventually insects will take over the world.

I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.