#nature

They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered. ↗

— Enid Blyton

#heather #honeysuckle #nature #night #reeds

Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace and a beauty that no artifice could compete with and that he found restorative. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#wilderness #beauty

I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence that preceded a most wonderful Silence. ↗

— George Saunders

#nature #silence #beauty

Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has long been a shadowy place, but always backlit by the light of hope. Each person can add hope to the world. A resigned person subtracts hope. The more people strive, the more change becomes likely. ↗

— Carl Safina

#conservation #hope #nature #change

To watch the dawn emerge from the night undoubtedly gives a heavenly feeling! The fresh sun rays entwine with the dark horizon and peep out of the creek with tranquil grin. ↗

— Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#love #nature #beauty

Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is. ↗

— Simon Barnes

#beauty

There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream. ↗

— Frances Mayes

#inspiration #nature #beauty

The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#nature #beauty

The vast and beautiful world is the home we share together. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#nature #world #beauty

In autumn velvety shawls of maroon and sienna drape hillsides that fold down upon willow-braided streams. ↗

— Robert Kaplan

#beauty