Nature's Gift Quotes

Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

Flowers are happy things.

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.

The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.

From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.

And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.

It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.