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Nature Quotes


Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

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.

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.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.