“I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.”
Nature does not need us, but we desperately need it. These quotes celebrate the natural world — forests, oceans, mountains, seasons — and the perspective that comes from spending time in places where human concerns feel very small.
“We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.”
“I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.”
“In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.”
“Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.”
“When I get recognized for 'Twilight,' it's usually a teenage girl, and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are.”
“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”
“I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
“Nature is wont to hide herself.”
“An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.”
“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.”
“I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.”
“A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.”
“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.”
“Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.”