Quotes about Nature

Yes, the world has been different ever since Darwin. But no less exciting, instructing, or uplifting; for if we cannot find purpose in nature, we will have to define it for ourselves.

This is a changing world. It changes from day to day, year to year, and from age to age. Rivers deepen their gorges as they carry more land to the sea. Mountains rise, only to be leveled gradually by winds and rain. Continents rise and sink into the sea. Such are the gradual changes of the physical earth as days add into years and years combine to become ages.

Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.

If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.

If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.

A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener's enemy.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

Love is the river of life in this world.