Toni Morrison Quotes

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

Nature is so phenomenal.

The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Everybody deserves a chance to be in nature.

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.

The natural world is a source of inspiration.

I am very interested in nature.

When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement.

Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.

I have grown up on a diet of sunrise picnics, learning the names of butterflies, planting trees.

I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed to this employment and tohunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.