Quotes about nature

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Quotes

  1. My little horse must think it queer

    To stop without a farmhouse near

    Between the woods and frozen lake

    The darkest evening of the year.

  2. The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight;

    New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

  3. Whose woods these are I think I know.

    His house is in the village, though;

    He will not see me stopping here

    To watch his woods fill up with snow.

  4. How often already you've had to be told,

    Keep cold, young orchard. Good-bye and keep cold.

    Dread fifty above more than fifty below.

    I have to be gone for a season or so.

  5. He gives his harness bells a shake

    To ask if there is some mistake.

    The only other sound's the sweep

    Of easy wind and downy flake.

  6. The way a crow

    Shook down on me

    The dust of snow

    From a hemlock tree Has given my heart

    A change of mood

    And saved some part

    Of a day I had rued.

  7. I love flowers Id love to have the whole place swimming in roses God of heaven theres nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and the waves rushing then the beautiful country with the fields of oats and wheat and all kinds of things

  8. Ten thousand years ago, human beings devised the techniques of agriculture and herding and slowly begin the process of destroying the environment by overgrazing and by overfarming.

    Still, not all that human beings could do in the wildest excesses of war and rapine could seriously damage the planet until 1945. In that year, the first nuclear bomb was exploded, and the Industrial Revolution, fed by cheap oil, went into high gear. We are now perfectly capable of damaging the planet beyond repair in any reasonable time, and are, in fact, in the process of doing so.

    p. 221

  9. There was nothing like a museum for calming the mind, for putting the problems of everyday life in their true perspective. Here, surrounded by the infinite variety and wonder of Nature, he was reminded of truths he had forgotten. He was only one of a million million creatures that shared this planet Earth. The entire human race, with its hopes and fears, its triumphs and its follies, might be no more than an incident in the history of the world.

    p. 744

  10. For the greater part of its course the river Drina flows through narrow gorges between steep mountains or through deep ravines with precipitous banks. In a few places only the river banks spread out to form valleys with level or rolling stretches of fertile land suitable for cultivation and settlement on both sides.

  11. It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.

  12. The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.