They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? —Jeanette Winterson More about this quote Tags: wonder mystery awe surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: gratitude nature honor divinity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: nature cities Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I stand holding the apple in both hands. It feels precious, like a heavy treasure. I lift it up and smell it. It has such an odor of outdoors on it I want to cry. —Margaret Atwood More about this quote Tags: apples smell Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Of all the language sources, the loss of nature seems the saddest. A thousand times a day, nature — in the most ordinary of places — has something to tell or show us; something it wants us to touch, smell, or feel; something it wants all of us, not just the overtly artistic, to express. —Joyce McGreevy More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What greater folly can be imagined than to call gems, silver, and gold “noble” and earth and dirt “base”? For do not these persons consider that, if there were as great a scarcity of earth as there is of jewels and precious metals, there would be no king who would not gladly give a heap of diamonds and rubies and many ingots of gold to purchase only so much earth as would suffice to plant a jessamine in a little pot or to set a tangerine in it, that he might see it sprout, grow up, and bring forth such goodly leaves, fragrant flowers, and delicate fruit? —Galileo Galilei More about this quote Tags: bounty wealth dirty fruit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. —Michelangelo Antonioni More about this quote Tags: nature cities Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What sublime thoughts filled my mind as I bent to the wind, and trudged through the gorse and heather? I will tell you. I was wondering how much money I shall make out of my next book. Thus does nature keep us in touch with the great realities of existence. —J.B. Morton More about this quote Tags: humor money nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In Rome you long for the country; there, you praise to the skies the city you’ve just left. —Horace More about this quote Tags: perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. —Rainer Maria Rilke More about this quote Tags: connection nature home Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That’s the problem with nature. Something’s always stinging you or oozing mucus on you. Let’s go watch TV. —Bill Watterson More about this quote Tags: nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city. —P.D. James More about this quote Tags: death nature violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I turn away from nature — human, animal, earthly or cosmic — when I turn away, that is, from intimate livingness, it means, simply and always, that I am afraid. —Sanfor Goodman More about this quote Tags: fear rejection nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It has always been part of basic human experience to live in a culture of wilderness. There has been no wilderness without some kind of human presence for several hundred thousand years. Nature is not a place to visit, it is home. —Gary Snyder More about this quote Tags: humanity perception experience nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants. —Dorothy Parker More about this quote Tags: growth seasons spring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email