Nature Quotes

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on."

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."

"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"

"I am two with nature."

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."

"I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite."

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."