Quotes on nature

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.”

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”

“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.”

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”

“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”

“To become vegetarian is to step towards the stream which leads to nirvana.”

“Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.”

“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”

“Hold fast to the mountain, take root in a broken-up bluff, grow stronger after tribulations, and withstand the buffering wind from all directions.”

“Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.”

“I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.”

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.”

“I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.”

“Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they’re water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.”

“There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?”

“You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.”

“The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?”

“Owning land is like owning the ocean, or the air. no one owns land.”

“If we remain humble and grounded in nature's wisdom, our mind will guide us safely through the confines of unawareness and the blindness of ignorance. (Why step out of nature ?)”

“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.”

“Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.”

“Nature's quiet power is a reminder that true strength is often silent.”

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

“Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.”

“Calligraphy of geeseagainst the sky-the moon seals it.”

“Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.”

“among the clouds we shared a cup of teathe mountain and me”

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.

The martial world is dangerous, but the human heart is even more treacherous.

There are no heroes or villains. Only people doing their best in difficult circumstances.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones.

In the absence of something more interesting to ponder, it is always tempting to hypothesize the existence of evil.

Good people can do bad things under certain circumstances, and that doesn’t make them bad people.

No person should be judged solely by the worst thing they’ve ever done.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.