God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
The mountains are calling and I must go.
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
Mother Nature is not sweet.
I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.
I'm always surprised when people respond positively to what I am saying, given its seriousnessness and strange nature.
It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Law is born from despair of human nature.
When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
Behind every cloud is another cloud.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Hackers are becoming more sophisticated in conjuring up new ways to hijack your system by exploiting technical vulnerabilities or human nature. Don't become the next victim of unscrupulous cyberspace intruders.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.
If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Nature is not human hearted.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.