7,238 Quotes About Nature

It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the vital spirituality of hope and increase that exist in the body and soul of nescient childhood. Caeiro’s work is a dawn that wakes us up and quickens us; a more that material, more than anti-spiritual dawn. It’s an abstract effect, pure vacuum, nothingness.

I was thinking today of my greatest happiness, a walk along a cliff by the sea, and you at the end of it.

When you stop eating meat, you feel light from inside. When you abstain from inflicting cruelty on animals, you will no longer be an agent of pain.

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.

Man has made the artificial world in which he lives, but he is clearly not made for it.

There is more mental health cure found in a pile of dirt than in all the behavioral therapy and drugs in modern medical science.

If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?

Like hunting, fishing offers up a sacrifice and a bond to the land that increases power in those with honorable tactics.