Looking for a song with lyrics about nature?

Question

such as Bob Dylan's "Tomorrow is a Long Time"

Answer 1

Remember the Mountain Bed, written by Woody Guthrie and played by Wilco.

Remember The Mountain Bed

Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves:
Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds:
You laughed as I covered you over with leaves, face, breast, hips and thighs.
You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes.

Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine
Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled woodvines twine
Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see
I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me.

Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky.
As your fingers played with grassy moss, and limber you did lie:
Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air
Your feet played games with mountain roots, as you lay thinking there.

Below us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they
As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away:
The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below
Where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go.

There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned.
Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned
There on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life’s reason why
The People laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die.

The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown,
Our words still ring in the brush and the trees were singing seeds are sown
Your shape and form is dim, but plain, there on our mountain bed
I see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head…

I learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams,
To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas
I stand here filled with my emptiness now and look at city and land
And I know why farms and cities are built by hot, warm, nervous hands.

I crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears,
I crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here:
My history and future blaze bright in me and all my joy and pain
Go through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again.

All this day long I linger here and on in through the night
My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight:
My loneliness healed my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain
Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again.

Answer 2

Colors of the Wind
Vanessa Williams
from Pocahontas sdtrk

You think you own whatever land you land on
The earth is just a dead thing you can claim
But I know every rock & tree & creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name...

You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look & think like you
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew
you never knew...

(Refrain)

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to
the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sunsweet berries of the earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And for once never wonder what they're worth.

Come rainstorm & the rivers are my brothers
The heron & the otter are my friends
And we are all connected to each other
In a circle, in a hoop that never ends.

(Repeat Refrain)

How high does the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down
Then you'll never know....
And you never heard the wolf cry
to the blue corn moon
For whether we are white or
copper-skinned
We need to sing with all the voices
of the mountain,
We need to paint with all the colors
of the wind
You can own the earth
& still all you own is earth
Until you can paint with all the
colors of the wind.

Answer 3

Good morning Silver :) Songs- Pretty Pink Rose- Adrian Belew Roses- De Phazz Roses- Outkast Rose- A Perfect Circle Tiny Flower- Rose Kemp (Double whammy! Song AND artist!) December Flower- In Flames Flowers in December- Mazzy Star Morcheeba- Flowers You Don't Bring Me Flowers- Neil Diamond & Barbara Streisand Lilac Lilies- Amon Duul II Fruit Tree- Nick Drake Hangin' Tree- Queens of the Stone Age Family Tree- Mammoth Volume The Last Tree- The Hidden Hand Fake Plastic Trees- Radiohead Albums- Peaceful Death and Pretty Flowers- Dead Horse Five Leaves Left- Nick Drake (Will the judges accept that answer?) BQ : Favourite flower? The one that doesn't trigger my allergies. BQ2 : Favourite tree? See above BQ3 : Favourite wild animal? Wolves (no, that's not a suck up "Gimme BA" answer!) BQ4 : Favourite wild animal native to *your* country? {if different from above} Gray Wolf

Answer 4

Annie's Song by John Denver
Joni Mitchell has got some songs about nature too.

Answer 5

I will not take these things for granted. Toad and the Wet Sprocket. It speaks of diving into the ocean, singing by the fire, running through the forest, standing in the wind.

Answer 6

The Green Green Grass of Home

Answer 7

Natures Way by Spirit

Answer 8

The Beatles! "Mother Nature's Son". White Album... "Born a poor young country boy - Mother Nature's son, all day long I'am sitting singing songs for everyone..............

Answer 9

Pink Moon by Nick Drake

Big Yellow Taxi by ? (2 versions)

Answer 10

"Blue Sky" by the Allman Brothers Band is kinda about Nature