Famous Quotes

"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind."

Annie Dillard on Nature

More quotes about Nature

• "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

• "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

  Anais Nin on Nature

• "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

  Albert Einstein on Nature

• "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

  e. e. cummings on Nature

• "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

  Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by Annie Dillard

• "The surest sign of age is loneliness."

• "There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."

• "It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere."

• "People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all."

• "Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone."