Famous Quotes & Sayings

Penelope Keith

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

Peter Coyote

The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Rabindranath Tagore

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

Rabindranath Tagore

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

Rabindranath Tagore

For man is by nature an artist.

Rabindranath Tagore

A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

Konrad Lorenz

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

Konrad Lorenz

...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.

Kent Nerburn

Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If you have the wisdom and the courage to go to nature alone, the larger rhythms, the eternal hum, will make itself known all the sooner. When you have found it, it will always be there for you. The peace without will become the peace within, and you will be able to return to it in your heart wherever you find yourself.

James Anthony Froude

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

James Anthony Froude

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

James Anthony Froude

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

Henry Adams

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Henry Adams

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.

Henry Beston

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.

Henry Beston

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture.

Henry Beston

When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness nor integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.

Henry Beston

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

Henry Beston

Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life - all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own.

Henry Beston

Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Henry David Thoreau

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 that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

Henry David Thoreau

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Henry David Thoreau

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

Henry David Thoreau

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

Henry David Thoreau

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

Henry David Thoreau

I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me.

Henry David Thoreau

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

Henry David Thoreau

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination