Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"Animals don't have beliefs. They simply act."
Pi Patel
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"We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them"
Huckleberry Finn
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"It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river like that"
Huckleberry Finn
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"The sea is not a miracle. It is hard and demanding."
Pi Patel
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"Animals are not cruel. They are entirely reasonable."
Pi Patel
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"Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an enemy's talon or tooth."
Pi Patel
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"The sea is nothing but a succession of gazes."
Pi Patel
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"Every creature will defend its home. It is the law of nature."
Pi Patel
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"Animals have an inner dignity and an awareness of their own worth that cannot be argued away."
Pi Patel
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"The tiger knows no malice. He acts only from instinct and hunger—a purity that humans abandoned long ago."
Pi Patel
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"Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an ecosystem."
The Narrator
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"The sea is calm, like the beautiful still waters of a lake."
Pi Patel
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"The stars was shining, and the leaves rustled in the wind ever so soft."
Huckleberry Finn
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"That man who sets himself in opposition to the nature of things is crushed."
Judge Holden
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"Some men are just born mean."
Sheriff Bell
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"I believe God is in this country too. In this grass. In this air."
Shug Avery
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"Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an bounded world."
Pi Patel
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"An animal that kills only for food is not a killer."
Pi Patel
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"The sea is the sky's darker brother."
Pi Patel
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"Animals don't escape their nature the moment they're trapped."
Pi Patel
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"Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an urgent, unforgiving present."
Pi Patel
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"Dear stars, dear trees, dear God."
Celie
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"Animals in the wild live subject to hunger, thirst, and injury, the ravages of disease and the inevitability of death by predation."
Pi Patel
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"Tigers are not afraid of anything in nature, except man."
The Narrator
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"The ocean provides, if you know how to look."
Pi Patel
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"A tiger is perfectly adapted for survival in the wild."
The Narrator
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"Animals do not have the capacity to understand death."
The Narrator
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"The stars looking good tonight"
Shug Avery
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"Nature doesn't negotiate."
The Commander
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"Animals in the wild live a precarious life."
Pi Patel