Top 1000 Nature Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.
The mountains are calling and I must go.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
In nature there are few sharp lines.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
My nature just changes.
Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
A forest bird never wants a cage.
I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us.
I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
All nature wears one universal grin.
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
