Quotations on Nature
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
-Francios De La Rochefoucauld
The original inhabitant of our land believed that everything possessed a soul: animals, trees, even rocks and rivers. It was a noble concept, one that we would have done well to preserve. But when you believe in the sanctity of something, you think twice before you abuse, exploit, or destroy it. You also feel more alive, more connected to everything else in your world. These are just a few of the things worth cherishing: the earth, the wilderness, a thunderstorm, a waterfall, a relic from the past, the ancestors who made you, the unseen powers of the universe, friendship, love...life itself.
-Rick Bayan
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
-Francis Bacon
We must walk as guests in nature; not impassioned, but cool and disengaged.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any interference with nature is damnable. Not only nature but also the people will suffer.
-Anahario (wife of Grey Owl)
Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands her business better than we do.
-Michel de Montaigne
This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere: the dew is never all dried at once: a shower is forever falling, vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
-John Muir
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
-Henry David Thoreau
The dominant culture sees a plant and asks, "Why does a plant need sunlight to grow?" An Indian, seeing the same thing, says, "How beautiful is the sunlight on the flower."
-Unknown
We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
-John Muir
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
-Edward Abbey
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
-John Muir
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
-Kahlil Gibran
The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.
-Yuan Sou
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousand years to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra.
-John Muir
Outdoors the best air fresheners are roses and lawns bein' mowed.
-Bil Keane, Family Circus
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
-John Muir
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
-Louis L'Amour
Modern technology / Owes ecology / An apology.
-Alan M. Eddison

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