Nature Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Man has made such a mighty struggle to feel at home on the face of the earth, without even yet succeeding.”

— D. H. Lawrence

It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

— D. H. Lawrence

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

— D. H. Lawrence

I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another…

— D. H. Lawrence

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

— D. H. Lawrence

If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo…

— D. H. Lawrence

The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is…

— D. H. Lawrence

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and…

— D. H. Lawrence

The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle…

— D. H. Lawrence

“But then he didn't want to remember, because she had been nothing to him then, and his nature revolted from remembering her…

— D. H. Lawrence

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet…

— D. H. Lawrence

[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other…

— D. H. Lawrence

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from…

— D. H. Lawrence

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity…

— D. H. Lawrence

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet…

— D. H. Lawrence

The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life,…

— D. H. Lawrence

Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you…

— D. H. Lawrence

Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the…

— D. H. Lawrence