Nature 1
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
An egg.
Once in a minute, twice in a moment, never in a hundred thousand years.
The letter M
This is as light as a feather, yet no man can hold it for long.
One's breath
Walk on the living, they don’t make sound; walk on the dead, they mutter and grumble.
Leaves.
What gets wetter as it dries?
A towel
Thirty white horses on a red hill. First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still.
Teeth.
What has a hundred legs but cannot stand, a long neck but no head, and eats the maid’s life?
A broom.
This thing all things devours: birds, beasts, trees, flowers… slays king, ruins town, and beats high mountain down.
Time
What builds castles, tears down mountains, makes some blind, and helps others see?
Sand
What is yours, but rarely used by you?
Your name
What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its roots upward?
An icicle.
Man walks over, man walks under; in time of war, men burn it asunder.
A bridge
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, and has a head but never weeps?
A river.
What has roots that nobody sees, is taller than trees, up, up it goes, and yet never grows?
A mountain
If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you don’t have me. What am I?
A Secret
Voiceless it cries, wingless flutters; toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
The wind
Where can you find roads without cars, forests without trees, and cities without houses?
A map.
With no wings I fly; with no eyes I see; with no arms I climb; more frightening than any beast, stronger than any foe… in the end I rule all.
Imagination
What goes on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night.
A human
What can travel around the world while staying in the same corner?
A postage stamp
Alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsty, ever drinking; all in mail but never clinking.
A fish.
What may go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?
An umbrella
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, cannot be heard, cannot be smelt… Ends life, kills laughter.
Darkness
An eye in a blue face saw an eye in a green face. “That eye is like to this eye,” said the first eye, “but in low place, not in high place.”
The sun looking at a daisy / flower
What has keys but cannot open locks?
A piano