Quotes about Nature
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.
— Ronald Reagan
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.
— DH Lawrence
A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.
— John Bunyan
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
— Henry David Thoreau
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
— Virginia Woolf
The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.
— Dr. Seuss
Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.
— Ronald Reagan
I like the way that the history of the tree shapes the tree. There's no distinction between the tree and its history. You can lose yourself in that thought.
— Wendell Berry
All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
— Heinrich Heine
It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
— George Eliot
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.
— Theodore Roosevelt