Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"The wilderness had patted him on the head"
Marlow
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"The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness"
Marlow
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"The smell of mud, of primeval mud, by Jove! was in my nostrils"
Marlow
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"The wilderness had patted him on the head."
Marlow
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"The light was out of the land—it dwelt in the air."
Marlow
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"The sun rose, but from where to where?"
Marlow
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"The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness."
Marlow
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"There are such things as natural laws which we must respect."
Van Helsing
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"They howled and leaped and spun and made horrid faces"
Marlow
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"The steamer toiled along slowly on the edge of a black and incomprehensible frenzy"
Marlow
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"I liked the old ways best"
Huckleberry Finn
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"Hunting is a good thing"
Jack Merridew
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"It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river on such a night"
Huckleberry Finn
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"We are all savages."
Simon
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"The tide is going out."
Ralph
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"The stars was shining, and the leaves rustled in the wind ever so slight."
Huckleberry Finn
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"The woods was thick, and I couldn't see very far."
Huckleberry Finn
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"Hunting is tracking things."
Jack Merridew
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"It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars"
Huckleberry Finn
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"We were always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitoes would let us"
Huckleberry Finn
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"The river was a mile wide and very still and grand"
Huckleberry Finn
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"Jim was most always naked when he wasn't working"
Huckleberry Finn
V
"In darkness he thrives; in light he withers."
Van Helsing
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"This was what comes of rebelling against the laws of nature"
Squealer
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"Nature holds secrets older than mankind."
Jonathan Harker
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"There are always dead animals at the side of the road. I have seen so many here on Highway 1, most of them squashed to a wet pancake by the time I spotted them."
Pi Patel
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"Animals are as much part of this world as we are."
Pi Patel
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"The sea does not care about human suffering."
Pi Patel
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"An animal that deals with a human is touched by humanity in a profound way a human himself would recognize."
Pi Patel
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"A tiger's life in the wild is not as nice as it sounds."
Pi Patel