Nature and animals Quotes

To create a little flower is the labour of ages

If you violate nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman

Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

All of nature is a battlefield

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

The poetry of the earth is never dead

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind, it is only the difference in the victim

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation

The day is done, and the darkness, falls from the wings of night, as a feather is wafted downward, from an eagle in his flight

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral

And after all the weather was ideal.