Nature

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.

And remember also that when we seek to learn from nature directly, our ultimate aim is to understand the world in which we live. We neither agree nor disagree with nature as we often do in the case of books.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Looking at the fire on the stone.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

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.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

The sea can smack the rocks like a hand smacking a cheek. It can hiss or gurgle or even kiss. But when it wants, it can go quiet. 'And then', said Anya Rothrock, 'you can hear the voices of the drowned'.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly see and understand a landscape is to see its depth as well as its smooth surfaces, its beauty and its scars.

It seems everything in nature that has beauty, also has a price.Let the value of our planets wildlife be to nature and nature alone.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.