Nature Quotes - Page 27

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world

Aside from a couple of signature flourishes, there's nothing to mark Paycheck as the product of acclaimed action director John Woo. In fact, there's little about this movie that makes it worth anyone's time and money. With a script that waffles between being hilariously absurd and insultingly stupid, and action scenes that won't cause anyone's pulse to skip a beat, Paycheck is less appealing than a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

There is nothing more delightful than to scoop up a wild joey in your arms and smell the wind and eucalyptus in the coats of the gentle kangaroo or the deep-earth smell of tiny wallabies. It is wonderful to see the trust in their eyes and the gradual realization that you mean them no harm.

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

That's what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!

Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.