Nature Quotes

Mountains, oceans, and everything growing in between. The natural world as teacher and mirror.

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"Nature renews us when we listen to it."
Pearl S. Buck
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"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?"
John Steinbeck
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"Nature does not care for our theories."
William Faulkner
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"Nature speaks to those who take time to listen."
Langston Hughes
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"Nature reminds us of our place in the world."
Langston Hughes
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"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The good earth is rich, if we know how to use it."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The ducks know about jealousy, the pigeons understand envy."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"The black cat is not evil, it is misunderstood."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"Nature is what we are put on earth to overcome."
Pearl S. Buck
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"My country must be kept beautiful and preserved for future generations."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Food and sex are indeed related to the deepest human needs and longings."
Pearl S. Buck
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"The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The people of the earth have killed the earth and blackened the sky."
John Steinbeck
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"I love the monster of the sea, that is Moby Dick, but I hate the whale that would destroy me."
John Steinbeck
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"Paris is a moveable feast."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever."
Ernest Hemingway
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"All my life I have loved the beauty of the trout stream, the grace of the moving trout."
Ernest Hemingway
"I wonder about the trees... I wonder if the trees have thoughts."
Theodore Dreiser
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Theodore Dreiser
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"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"We are the same as plants, as animals, as the earth, and as the rest of the galaxy."
Pearl S. Buck
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"The beauty of nature lies in its indifference to human concerns."
Pearl S. Buck
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"How much older the works of man look than any of the works of God!"
Edith Wharton
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
Willa Cather
"The peculiar quality of a landscape is that it is the only scenery that is worth anything."
Willa Cather
"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy."
Willa Cather
"The most important thing is the land."
Willa Cather
"Winter comes down on the farm and closes everything in."
Willa Cather