Favorite Nature Quotes

Indian Peaks Wilderness

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.  ~Rachel Carson

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.  ~Eleonora Duse

Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of feet through hill-top grass and smelt the earth made ready for the seed, you are never again going to be fully happy about the cities and towns that man carries like a crippling weight upon his back.  ~Gwyn Thomas

The moon is like a mystery novel, the sun like a motivational self-help book, and the stars a coffee table book of photography.  The sky is the whole library, and God the librarian.  ~Pepper Giardino

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
~Chinese Proverb

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.  ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour. ~ William Blake

You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as   ours... Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

- Black Elk, Oglala