Nature Quotes - Page 24

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast

...What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

Trees give peace to the souls of men.

Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.

The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of natural science, as revealed in the study of particles and of the cosmos, is allied to the litheness of a merganser diving in a pure Swedish lake, or the grace of a dolphin leaving shining trails at night in the Gulf of California.

I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Everyone is entitled to a home where the sun, the stars, open fields, giant trees, and smiling flowers are free to teach an undisturbed lesson of life.

You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.

I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror - the wide brown land for me!

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.