I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Nature was my kindergarten.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

The peacock has become one of my regular sources of inspiration from nature.

Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.

If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?

I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snowboarding, and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.