Nature Quotes - Page 12

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.

Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers, he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.

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.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness. To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion, to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.