“The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.”
More from Wendell Berry on Nature
“There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.”
“The Earth is what we all have in common.”
“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.”
“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
Others on Nature
John Muir
17 quotes“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and c...”
William Wordsworth
12 quotes“The ocean is a mighty harmonist.”
Khalil Gibran
5 quotes“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
Joseph Conrad
4 quotes“And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank”
Rabindranath Tagore
4 quotes“Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.”
John Donne
4 quotes“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
Charles Dickens
3 quotes“. . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth”
D.H. Lawrence
3 quotes“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
John Keats
3 quotes“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
Heraclitus
3 quotes“Nature loves to hide.”
Arthur C. Clarke
3 quotes“Meteorites don’t fall on the Earth. They fall on the Sun and the Earth gets in the way.” - John W. Campbell”
John Ruskin
3 quotes“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.”