- “Ever changing clouds paint portraits on the sky, and each person sees a different image.” ― Rhonda Savage Thompson
- “When I sit up I am greeted by the world. Level with the treetops I look down on sparrows swooping in and out of the branches. The tide, the new rising moon, the clouds, the wind – these greet me. These are my allies. The whole planet is laid out before me and available for whatever adventure the day will take me on. By comparison, living in society seems to require an alarm clock. Primarily assembled from angst and fish anuses, these contraptions, regardless of your soul’s whereabouts, will slap and assault you into a pitiful state of what passes for consciousness. Your first sight is the Time, an arragement of molecules on the clock’s face to whom you will be enslaved for the rest of the day. You may as well call him “master.” Next, a pile of dirty clothes on the floor, a knocked-over glass of water, and so forth, until you are so overwhelmed with despair that to prevent hurling yourself through the window, you must ignore your personal bill of rights, put on an acceptable frown, and go about your business, disregarding the pleas from you increasingly timid soul.” ― Daniel Hays, On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave
- “Kya knew it wasn’t so much that the herd would be incomplete without one of its deer, but that each deer would be incomplete without her herd” ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
- “THE OLD LEAVES FALLING AND THE NEW LEAVES RAISING IS THE NATURE OF NATURE” ― J. Tisa
- “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.” ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
- “Forget the environment, focus on people who love you.” ― Shaynee Gokool
- “I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these belong to,That a real and true wholenessIs a sickness of our ideas.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
- “Nature happens, but sometimes, if you’re not told just how special it is, you take it for granted. The same can be true with people.” ― Julieanne O’Connor
- “In our evolutionary world, good enough is as good as it gets. There is no reason for nature to work any other way. There is no evolutionary pressure to produce designs that are better than they need to be.” ― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
- “I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it’s because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it’s because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back from whence we came.[Remarks at the Dinner for the America’s Cup Crews, September 14 1962]” ― John F. Kennedy
- “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” ― John Muir
- “It’s not the size nor the power of the ocean that amazes me. Rather, it’s the way that something so powerful and immense can repeatedly caress a beach with such tenderness and never tire of doing it.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
- “All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.” ― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
- “These days I live in a magical little village on Dartmoor in Devon, England, and my “special spot” is a moss-covered rock in a circle of trees in the woods behind my house.I often go into the woods, or walk through the fields and hills nearby, when I need inspiration, or to work out a plot problem, or come up with an idea. I think better on my feet, particularly when there is beautiful countryside around me and a dog at my side.When I was younger and lived in big cities, I had special places there too. There’s magic everywhere, if you look.” ― Terri Windling
- “Some days are seperate birds apart, those strung between unsteady skies, to leave so soon as each of us, as all entire light.” ― Ian William L.
- “Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” ― May Sarton
- “She has found the secret: When you stop seeking the artificial entertainment created by thoughts and words, the universe resumes the original entertainment. Birds, stars, clouds etc. come and dance before her and make her feel like the queen of universe.” ― Shunya
- “What is there about fire that’s so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?” Beatty blew out the flame and lit it again. “It’s perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. Or almost perpetual motion. If you let it go on, it’d burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It’s a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don’t really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you’re a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “In life, the bad interferes with the good and vice versa. But at the end, only change remains..” ― Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
- “We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her.” ― Ivan Michurin
- “Sevilmemeyi rahatça kaldırabiliyorsun da sevilmek zor geliyor sana, sen de bunu anlamıyorsun.” ― Tomris Uyar, Aramızdaki Şey
- “I prefer Nature’s indifference to God’s love.” ― Marty Rubin
- “Forests are mysterious places.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
- “The animals cried for one whole week. Their tears made it unnecessary for rain to fall. And the beautiful green forest now seemed dark and dim.” ― Teresa Whitaker Smith, Blue
- “Humans can imitate what Nature does, but never can we exactly replicate what she creates.” ― Joey Lawsin, Evolution of Creation: A Journal of a Creative Mind
- “That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind him to each leaf and twig and feather and flutter.” ― Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
- “I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.” ― Rousseau Jean – Jacques
- “I envision an integration of multiple sources of wisdom, diverse knowledge systems, and unexpected creative collaborations—all necessary ingredients for a future worth having: a future that embraces the embodied sacred.” ― Julie J. Morley, Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature
- “Lies are always the strongest tools of the aggressor, as lies are difficult to disprove due to their chameleon like nature.” ― Steven Redhead, Life Is a Dance