Monday, June 24, 2013

Nature Quotes



“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” 
     ― John Muir

“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.” 
     ― John Muir

"The sun shines not on us but in us.” 
     ― John Muir

"Going to the woods is going home.” 
     ― John Muir

"The earth has music for those who listen.” 
     ― George Santayana

“And then there are the times when the wolves are silent and the moon is howling.” 
     ― George Carlin

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more” 
     ― George Gordon Byron

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.” 
     ― William Shakespeare

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
     --Albert Camus

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
     ---R. Buckminster Fuller

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
     ---Frank Lloyd Wright

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
     ---George Washington Carver

"In wildness is the preservation of the world."
     ---Thoreau, Henry David 

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn” 
     ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been."
      ---Diane Arbus

"My cares dripped away in the sun's warmth, and Earth's fragrance breathed into me a calm I had never known."
     ---Judith Adain

"It began over two million years ago with one of nature's most delicate structures, the snowflake."
     --Backpacker Magazine

"Go for yourself, from your land, from your people, from your father's house, to the land that I will show you."        
      ---Genesis 12:1