Nature Quotes

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. ~ The Call of the Wild by Jack London There is a patience of the wild—dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself—that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food. ~ The Call of the Wild by Jack London "There is no such thing as magic, though there is such a thing as a knowledge of the secrets of Nature." ~ She by H. Rider Haggard "Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers." ~ Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury The sun did not rise, it overflowed. ~ Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury The moon was coming up, and its mystic shimmer was casting a million lights across the distant, restless water. ~ The Awakening by Kate Chopin The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud disparts and rolls away from heaven, not passing and leaving a sea all sapphire, but tossed buoyant before a continued, long-sounding, high-rushing moonlight tempest. The moon reigns glorious, glad of the gale, as glad as if she gave herself to his fierce caress with love. ~ Shirley by Charlotte Bronte I give you the desert chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity. ~ Children of Dune by Frank Herbert "You do not beg the sun for mercy." ~ Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together! ~ Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert