Nature Quotes

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree" "God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars" "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the 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" "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway." "In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet" "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous" "Those who are wise find joy in water, those who are benevolent find joy in mountains" "Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?" "Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently proclaim from the orchard and the garden that the spring procession has begun to move" "As might be expected of creatures so heavenly in color, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic" "Long after their associates have gone southward, they linger like the last leaves on the tree" "Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song?" "I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere" "In what language does rain fall over tormented cities" "Delicious autumn my very soul is wedded to it and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns" "Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions they pass no criticisms" "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled" "You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing-- that's what counts" "The environment is everyone's responsibility." "In nature we never see anything isolated but everything in connection with something else"