nature Quotes

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

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.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.