Famous Quotes About nature

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.