Quotes about Nature

Unfortunately, the sinner isn't always the victim. Why should it be? said Mathews. Nature does not work by a scheme of poetical justice. Nor does God, said Perry. We suffer for one another, as, indeed, we must, being all members one of another. Can you separate the child from the father, the man from the brute, or even the man from the vegetable cell...?

A zebra does not change its spots.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

In May, when sea winds pierced our solitudes,I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods.