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Nature Quotes



"When a girl's under 21, she's protected by law. When she's over 65, she's protected by nature. Anywhere in between she's fair game."


"What need does the earth have of us?"


"When listening to the lightning storms in your area on a standard AM radio, you will hear a sound like bacon frying and this is the electromagnetic energy that the storm is generating. Plants react to this energy and may show vigorous growth during lightning seasons."


"We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any."


"If I were a flower,humming bird would be my favourite beeAnd If I were blind,the light of darkness I'd love to see."


"Animal allies are all around, offering beauty and connection."


"I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude."


"O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!"


"Wind and breeze are separated todayCrimson twilight denies to fade away Grass blades turn brown to match the soilWe pretend to smile at every turmoil."


"When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses!"


"What a great genius this water is! It has thousands of different beautiful faces: It is a rainbow, an ocean, a lake, an iceberg, a waterfall, a river, a drop, a fog. What a great genius this water is!"



"Tess was awake before dawn - at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken."


"Night never needs a shade but it requires to fade into the grin of twinkling stars where light is just a glint of scars."



"I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him."


"Life is always more beautiful and worth living when you are capable of enjoying the beauty of nature."


"I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, right? So, then, what makes night? I'll tell you: shadows crawling out from under five billion trees! Think of it! Shadows running around in the air, muddying the waters you might say. If only we could figure a way to keep those darn five billion shadows under those trees, we could stay up half the night, Doug, because there'd be no night!"


"Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be."


"Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature."


"Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray but sort of, or sort of white, and I've always really liked it because it reminds me of waiting for something good to happen."


"No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!"


"The English summer is never far away, it's just above the clouds."


"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."


"That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change."


"Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object."


"The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire."


"Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me."


"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."


"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"
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