Nature Quotes - Page 36

• The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Healing, Answers, Woods

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.68, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Light, Woods

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.234, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I bow in reverence to the white cloud.

  Li Bai

  Clouds, White, Bows

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• I believe that everything in Nature aspires to the acme of strength, well-being, and happiness; and everything that deviates from this I call immoral.

  Henry van de Velde

  Believe, Well Being, Wells

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• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

  Victor Hugo

  Sea, Sky, Sea And Sky

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

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• My spiritual connection with nature is basically what we all have - you transcend yourself. It's what happens when you see a sunset, for example. If I were using a traditional religious term, I'd say I was connecting with God. For me, I feel that much more in nature than in a city.

  Robert Johnson

  Spiritual, Religious, Sunset

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• He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

  Albert Einstein

  Littles, Mystery, Granted

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• Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

  James Cagney

  Order, My Family, Prime

  James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”

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• Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

  John Donne

  Law, Goal

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• Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky.

  Rumi

  Sky, Way, Sides

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.

  David Malouf

  Night, Smell, Giving

  David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.147, Random House

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• I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean.

  Densey Clyne

  Believe, Ocean, Tree

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• Nature is our greatest teacher.

  Edna Walling

  Teacher

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• The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves, and seem to melt like the bristles of a melting hairbrush. The hills turn powder-blue and gauzy. Mirages resembling pools of mica and shallows of crystal water appear at the far ends of streets and roads. Punctually at eleven every burning morning, the cicadas begin to drill the air, to drill themselves also, ceaselessly and relentlessly, to death in one short day after seven long years underground.

  Hal Porter

  Morning, Air, Blue

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• If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.

  Harry Hooton

  Men, Monkeys, Concerned

  Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”

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• The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.

  Harry Hooton

  Moving, Men, Order

  Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”

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• Nature's Moods The water is always changing and whenever you look at it you get something back. I'm sure the water isn't aware of me but I'm very much aware of it. Living by the water means constant company.

  Hazel Hawke

  Mean, Water, Looks

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• Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky. They could be distant and mysterious, or beautifully bleak as the wind tore across the plains from their snowy peaks. The hills were ever changing like the sea.

  Hazel Hawke

  Blue, Wind, Sea

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• How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?

  Joy Adamson

  Real, Pride, Giving

  Joy Adamson (2011). “Born Free: The Story of Elsa”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

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• Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the life laid down - is the night sky any less strange; should my glance less follow the flight; should the pen shake less in my hand.

  Judith Wright

  Song, Stars, Night

  Judith Wright (1971). “Collected poems, 1942-1970”, Angus & Robertson

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• At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day.

  Michael Leunig

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.

  Morris West

  Thinking, Bird, Tree

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• Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Beautiful, Art, Creator

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• Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of limb and delicate in the colouring of its covering. Then it has distinctive qualities; in fact I know of no other tree which is more decorative, both as regards the flow of its limbs and the patterns the bark makes on its main trunk. In all its stages the gum tree is extremely beautiful.

  Hans Heysen

  Beautiful, Tree, Quality

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• There is nothing more delightful than to scoop up a wild joey in your arms and smell the wind and eucalyptus in the coats of the gentle kangaroo or the deep-earth smell of tiny wallabies. It is wonderful to see the trust in their eyes and the gradual realization that you mean them no harm.

  Stella Reid

  Mean, Eye, Wind

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