Thursday, June 9, 2011

Nature Quotes

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. ~ Martin Luther

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880


I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir, 1913, in L.M. Wolfe, ed., John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, 1938


What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ~Logan Pearsall Smith


Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear


How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ~John Muir

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~George Washington Carver

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ~Logan Pearsall Smith

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