Nature Quotes - Page 32

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds.

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

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.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

For we need this thing wilderness far more than it needs us. Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest continue the course of creation's destiny. And in this we mere humans can take part-by fitting our civilization to the mountain.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.

It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.