#ture

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you. ↗

— David Attenborough

#being #itself #nature #positive #unkind

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? ↗

— David Attenborough

#book #elephant #except #grandchildren #happy

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind. ↗

— Mary Austin

#creatures #credit #fully #interdependence #kind

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#delight #else #loss #nature #nothing

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#death #like #nature #secret

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. ↗

— Jane Austen

#day #fine #fine day #look #most

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. ↗

— Jane Austen

#early #given #life #much #nature

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ↗

— Alfred Austin

#bottom #class #constantly #even #gardening

They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

#great #period #pictures #really #represented

Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branches of the little redbud. It made me feel like I was saying a prayer, to do this. I know that sounds like foolishness, but that little tree was like an altar for me. I stood there in the cold of early winter, wishing for the redbud to bear leaves so that I might put my face against them. ↗

— Silas House

#prayer #trees #nature