The birds, God’s poor who cannot wait.
Nature Quotes
Keep close to Nature’s heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, saying: “Here is a story-book The Father has written for thee.” – “Come, wander with me,” she said, “Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.”
The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever galling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man, – A ripple […]
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the […]
The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature.
