Dying Nature Quotes

#1. A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature's demolition team comes in.

Dan Groat

#2. Ah! the year is slowly dying,
And the wind in tree-top sighing,
Chant his requiem.
Thick and fast the leaves are falling,
High in air wild birds are calling,
Nature's solemn hymn.

Mary Weston Fordham

#3. I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. And you know that anyone who at least once in his life has caught a perch or seen blackbirds migrating in the fall, when they rush in flocks over the village on clear, cool days, is no longer a townsman, and will be drawn towards freedom till his dying day.

Anton Chekhov

#5. Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.

Peter Heller

#6. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

Daniel Wallace

#7. Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.

Garth Nix

#8. Nature, through all her works, in great degree,
Borrows a blessing from variety.
Music itself her needful aid requires
To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.

Charles Churchill

#9. A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

William Jay

#10. I just think Barack [Obama], he doesn't dig being asked at all. He's got a bit of an imperious nature about him. I guess nobody has told him that nobody reads newspapers anymore. That is a dying art form.

Bill O'Reilly

#11. If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future.

Steven L. Stephenson

#13. The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. When I realized this fear, this uncertainty, this potential of dying, I guess I needed something greater to hold onto than what we can see, touch, and smell-and that was the spiritual aspect of God, the nature of God and his relationship to humans.

Goldie Hawn

#15. Everyone wants to be the one to get the mattress pad ... We can do this. We all love to do. The more we can do, the less we have to sit and stare at trees and think about the transient nature of life. - 131

Robin Romm

#16. The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

John Fowles

#17. The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.

John Flavel

#18. You can achieve enlightenment by simply spending time contemplating nature: the formation of clouds, the beauty of the forest, and the lifecycle of the beings that dwell within.

Loren Mayshark

#19. If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season.

Shana Chartier

#20. Lies of that nature could be waiting around in the corners of a person's mind, hanging like bats in the corners, waiting to take advantage of any kind of darkness.

Alice Munro

#21. Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Langston Hughes

#22. Life and death is a matter of destiny, just like day and night is the law of the universe. Chuang Tzu

Sung Yee Poon

#23. Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.

Molly Caldwell Crosby

#24. The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.

Enza Vita

#25. So many fear death - spending their precious waking hours discussing it - while failing to notice that deep sleep is no different. It's as if they don't hear Mother Nature telling them not to worry every day.

Anthony Marais

#26. Nature is never static. It is always changing. Everything is in a constant state of flux. Nothing endures. Everything is in the process of either coming into being or expiring.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#27. We are so trivial by nature that only amusements can stop us from dying for real.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#28. The reason we love nature is because it's fascinating and we love all the creatures, but if you watch any nature film, there's always a lesson: "the creatures are all dying and life sucks." The same is true of literature.

T.C. Boyle

#29. What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

Kahlil Gibran

#30. The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#32. There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over ... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

J.R.R. Tolkien