“There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.”
More from Wendell Berry on Nature
“The Earth is what we all have in common.”
“The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.”
“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“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
William Wordsworth
12 quotes“Nature never did betrayThe heart that loved her.”
Khalil Gibran
5 quotes“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
Joseph Conrad
4 quotes“The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.”
John Donne
4 quotes“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
Rabindranath Tagore
4 quotes“The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.”
Heraclitus
3 quotes“Nature loves to hide.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
3 quotes“Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above th...”
Robert Browning
3 quotes“Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
D.H. Lawrence
3 quotes“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
Wallace Stevens
3 quotes“We live in an old chaos of the sun.”
John Keats
3 quotes“Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer”