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Nature Quotes


"To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."


"Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans."


"Forgetting nature is like forgetting your mother. Remember you are a child of nature. You are connected to it and belong to it. So don't forget to protect her."


"If you study the rhythm of life on this planet, you will find that everything moves in perfect symphony with everything else - by grand divine design. The earth has the ability to heal and regenerate itself, just as our oceans have the ability to replenish themselves by turning over their debris with the waves to wash them ashore. This perfect orchestration of the cycle of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles. The earth will continue to exist with or without us. So the real concern should be, will we be able to continue to co-exist with each other?"


"The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society."


"Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman."


"The little lake you love is the biggest ocean for you!"


"If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty."



"The way in which the twists were entangled to knot up the mind-speech-body and the innate nature (relative self, prakruti), is the manner in which they will be untwisted."


"And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?"


"A tree's nature does not change because the wind blew off a few of its leaves."


"People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter."


"Inside that tiny seed, lives the roots, branches, bark, trunk, leaves, twigs and apple fruit of that apple tree. You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell any of that yet; nevertheless, it is all inside that seed. The moment the seed is in your hand- all of that is in your hand, too, from the root to the bark to the fruit! All you have to do is to push the seed into the soil. And what makes anyone plant any apple seed? It is the belief that in the seed, there is the tree. So, believe. To have a seed, is to have everything."


"Ugh!' snarled the Wolf, as he limped through the brushwood with his tail between his legs, 'this is perfectly monstrous weather. Why doesn't the Government look to it?"


"The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air--a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves."


"Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded."


"Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer."


"If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the grass is less real than it looks. St. Thomas (Aquinas) has a really logical right to say, in the words of the modern mystic, A. E.: "I begin by the grass to be bound again to the Lord."


"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."


"If we connect with nature, we can reconstruct our soul, spirit and strength."


"Life is a dance of nature."


"The majestic mountain is swimming in the eternal lake of beauty, love, and tranquility."


"Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us!"


"The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it."


"She shelled the nuts and toasted them, jiggling them about in the pan. She sprinkled them with salt and ate them each by each. Some were bitter. Some were sweet. Some were hardly anything. That was just the way of things."


"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."


"Thirst is a language even the grass understands."


"Le ciel A©tait absolument noir, il n'y avait plus d'A©toiles, mais A©videmment il en voyait une."


"I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric productAnd look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green."


"She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines."


"Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety."
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