What are some nature quotes in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Answer 1

" I see the fog closing down, and it made me so sick and scared I couldn't budge for most half an minute it seemed to me - and then there warn't no raft in sight; you couldn't see twenty yards." Pg. 108

~ The scary times in Nature like the one described above are thankfully only a portion of Nature and there is a calming peaceful side of it as well. Here is a paragraph showing the beauty and calming nature in the book. They also show you how Huck Feels about them and gives another view besides him being frightened of the nature around him.~

"Next we slid into the river and had a swim, so as to freshen up and cool off; then we set down on the sandy bottom where the water wa about knee-deep, and watched the daylight come. Not a sound anywheres - perfectly still- just like the whole world was asleep, only sometimes the bullfrogs a-clattering, mabye. The first thing to see, looking away over the water, was a kind of dull line - that was the woods on t'other side - you couldn't make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness, spreding around; then the river softened up, away off, and warn't black any more, but grey; you could see little dark spots drifting along, ever so far away... and you see the mist curl up off of the water, and the east reddens up, and the river... then the nice breeze springs up, and comes fanning you from over there, so cool and fresh, and sweet to smell, on account of the woods and the flowers...and the song-birds..." Pg. 156 & 157

~ So from that we can see how tempting the river would be for anyone. For Huck and Jim it was an escape from everything else out there. Nature didn't tell you what you and cram you up like the rest of the "civilized" world did, with there trying to make you learn a certain thing,talk a certain way, and dress a certain way, it would free you from all of those rules. Nature taught Huck just as much as anyone else could and he loved it. In fact he even loved being on that raft in the river!That was a place he felt happy on and at home. This shows how nature can captivate us and make us want to be around it more and more.~

" We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft." Pg.155

Answer 2

1. “Nature is mighty hard to find sometimes, when you want her.” - Mark Twain
2. “Tom said that what he meant was, we could steal anything we needed.” - Mark Twain
3. “I really loved this place - I believe I’d been happy here a long time. And I’m sure it was growing as fast as it wanted to.” - Mark Twain