Nature and animals Quotes

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Time spent with cats is never wasted

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs

Nature is the art of God

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea

The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow

To create a little flower is the labour of ages

If you violate nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman

Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

All of nature is a battlefield

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

The poetry of the earth is never dead

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind, it is only the difference in the victim

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing