Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Nature Quotes
Nature has always had more power than education.
A brave man likes the feel of nature on his face, Yeah and a wise man has enough sense to get in out of the rain
I saw Fair Haven Pond with its island, and meadow between the island and the shore, and a strip of perfectly still and smooth water in the lee of the island, and two hawks, fish hawks perhaps, sailing over it. I did not see how it could be improved. Yet I do not see what […]
Nature is ruthless when it comes to matching the quantity of life in any given place to the quantity of nourishment available.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
We need some tonic of wildness – to wade somewhere in marshes where the bittern and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe… At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be […]
The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature.
If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about a supernatural influence. But until such time as nature becomes hopelessly unintelligible and unpredictable, we need look no further than nature itself for explanations.
June, July, and August, the tortoise eggs are hatching a few inches beneath the surface in sandy fields. You tell of active labors, of works of art, and wars the past summer; meanwhile the tortoise eggs underlie this turmoil. What events have transpired on the lit and airy surface three inches above them!… Perhaps you […]
