Quotes about nature
276 quotes from 143 people
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather1873–1947O Pioneers! (1913), Part II, Ch. 8I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Preface to Humane Biology Projects (1961) by the Animal Welfare InstituteWest of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937The Colour Out of Space (1927)- Rachel Carson1907–1964The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Michael Crichton1942–2008Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
Frank Herbert1920–1986“Introduction” to New World or No World (1970)- Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Letter to Theo, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 July 1888, as quoted in Windows of the Soul: Experiencing God in New Ways (1996) by Ken Gire, p. 91.- Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850Lost Illusions, Part II: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (1839), tr. Ellen Marriage, ch. I
Edward Abbey1927–1989The Journey Home (1977), “Shadows from the Big Woods”, p. 225If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
Edward Abbey1927–1989A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)Spring is noticed, if at all
By people sitting in railway trains.
Bertolt Brecht1898–1956“Concerning spring” [Über das Frühjahr] (1928), Uhu, Berlin, IV, 6 (March 1928); trans. Christopher Middleton in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 158There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.
Samuel Beckett1906–1989Molloy (1951)Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)