The powers of water are immeasurable. In the form of ice, it can chisel rock as effectively as steel.
Unloosed in a river, it can slice through layers of volcanic ash like a knife through a cake.
Meandering in a shady stream, it can make a home for green growing things.
If one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom.
How easy and simple it is to live enjoyably when the simple, interminable blue of the sky, with its long wisps of white clouds, become a pleasant thing to behold, a thing of beauty that thrills you every time you care to look skyward.
Our natural world is alive with beauty and wonder. It's important for our peace of mind and our enthusiasm for life to love the world we live in and care for the earth and all living things. We hope that these nature quotes will awaken a sense of awe and appreciation for our earth so that we can live in greater harmony with it.
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun, Radiance of moon, Splendour of fire. Speed of lightning, Swiftness of wind, Depth of sea,
Stability of earth, Firmness of rock.
Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.
We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.
You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
These are brand-new birds of twelve-months' growing, Which a year ago, or less than twain, No finches were, nor nightingales,Nor thrushes, But only particles of grain, And earth and air, and rain.
Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.
If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.
There is something of the marvelous in all things of nature.