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Nature Quotes
"A rain like melting pillows a rain so beautifulI could neverhave let go ofif not certainthat someday...it would find its wayinto my poem."
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"These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect."
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"Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to forst and betrayal."
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"The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature."
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"The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness."
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"Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at?"
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"If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not."
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"It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers."
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"Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative."
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"Part of a moon was falling down the west,Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.Its light poured softly in her lap. She sawAnd spread her apron to it. She put out her handAmong the harp-like morning-glory strings,Taut with the dew from garden bed to eaves,As if she played unheard the tendernessThat wrought on him beside her in the night."
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"A sudden damp coldness clung to the air around us. I lifted my head, eyeing the burnt orange sky. One drop of water fell, splashing off my cheek. Then the sky opened up, drenching us in cold rain within seconds.I sighed. "Really, it has to rain?"
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"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."
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"I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God."
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"I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words."
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"The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody."
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"Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly."
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"Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature."
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"Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak."
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"If this is how you feel about a desert, I can't wait until you see your first real tree. Your mind will explode."
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"I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature."
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"Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world."
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"Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun."
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"The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming."
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"Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen."
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"The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around."
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"Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature."
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"I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest."
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"Nature can counsel nothing but crime."
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