Creation Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The black rock was sharp-edged, hot, and hard as corundum; it seemed not merely alien but impervious to life. Yet on the southern face…

— Edward Abbey

But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even…

— Bill Bryson

“But at some point in her passage, the trees began to change. They stretched taller, and the soft, pale bark darkened, roughened. She put…

— Malinda Lo

Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched…

— A.C.H. Smith

“When she slowly straightened, the land was vast before her. The sun was setting down the river, casting a cold pink hue along the…

— Eowyn Ivey

Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all…

— Henry David Thoreau

Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain.

— Haruki Murakami

To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully…

— James Hutton

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor…

— Washington Irving

Soon my companions were lost to my sight behind the mountain ridge in my rear, which still seemed ever retreating before me, and I…

— Henry David Thoreau