Quotes about nature

When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.

Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?

The true antithesis of nature is not art but arbitrary conceit, fantasy, and stereotyped convention.

Nobody had made this wilderness, and there was no evil in it and no good; it simply was.

Before the gods and after, always, are the streams. Caves, stones, hills. Trees. The earth. The darkness of the earth.

“What harm have the trees done them?” he said. “Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are savages, who would set a land afire because they have a quarrel with other men.”

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

"We're not outside the world, yoz. You know? We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see?"

He liked the vast openness of sky and prairie, and found loneliness a pleasure with so immense a domain to be alone in.

Let’s not lose our perspective here. The Smokies achieved their natural splendor without the guidance of a national park service and don’t actually need it now.