977 private quotes tagged nature

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” — William Wordsworth

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“Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” — Lou Holtz

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“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” — Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” — John Burroughs

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“It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” — Frederick Douglass

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“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” — Jean Giraudoux

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“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” — May Sarton

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“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.” — Walt Disney

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“Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.” — William Ellery Channing

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“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” — John Keats

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“Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'” — Robert Byrne

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“I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.” — Jennifer Jason Leigh

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“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.” — Alfred Austin

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“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.” — Anton Chekhov

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“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.” — Hal Borland

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“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.” — Walter Scott

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“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” — Hal Borland

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“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” — Dag Hammarskjold

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“I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.” — Lady Gaga

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“I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.” — Lady Gaga

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“When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.” — Barack Obama

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“Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.” — Paul Ryan

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“Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.” — Nikita Khrushchev

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