Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"The sea is no thief. It is we who take, it is we who are maimed."
The Narrator
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"The English landscape at its finest expresses a sense of restraint."
Stevens
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"The sun do move, it don't stand still"
Jim
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"The flowers of evil bloom regardless of our judgment."
Judge Holden
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"The tulips are opening."
Offred
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"I must say, the countryside is rather beautiful."
Stevens
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"Nature demands variety, for men at least."
The Commander
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"Look at this tree, Celie. Look at this tree."
Shug Avery
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"The river was a-rising and I reckoned that pretty soon we would have to get into our canoe."
Huckleberry Finn
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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
Shug Avery
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"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
Shug Avery
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"The river was a wonderful thing."
Huckleberry Finn
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"Nature operates according to laws that humans cannot truly understand."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"The river knows the secrets we dare not speak."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"Walls. Brick ones, Cement ones. Tin ones."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"The river smelled of shit and pesticides bought with World Bank loans."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"The smell of fish from the river mixed with something rotten."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"You cannot stop the river from flowing."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"The river carries secrets downstream."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"They were covered with a tender, transparent skin, as if they were newborns."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The heat was unbearable and the dust never stopped falling."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The rains lasted nearly five years."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The porch was lit by the glow of the stars."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"I dream of rain"
Offred
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"The air itself seemed to hold its breath."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"The river knew all their secrets."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"The winter was merciless and unforgiving."
Death
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"Nature always has the final word."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The sky was the color of a human eye."
Death
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"Her maternal instinct was not stronger than her curiosity."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)