Quotes about Nature
I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
— Anne Lamott
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
— Albert Schweitzer
According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.
— Richard Allen
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
— Wendell Berry
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
— John Bunyan
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
— Khalil Gibran
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
— Virginia Woolf
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
— William Faulkner