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Abraham Crowley I never had any other desire so strong, and so l...
Albert Camus Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a f...
Albert Camus In the depth of winter I finally learned that th...
Albert Einstein Look deep into nature, and then you will underst...
Albert Schweitzer Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to fore...
Aldo Leopold In June as many as a dozen species may burst the...
Alice Walker I think it pisses God off if you walk by the col...
Ambrose Bierce Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-third...
Anais Nin And the day came when the risk to remain tight i...
Anais Nin I know why familles were created, with all their...
Andrew Wyeth I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone...
Annie Dillard There is a muscular energy in sunlight correspon...
Ansel Adams It is horrifying that we have to fight our own g...
Ansel Adams Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a g...
Anthony J. D'Angelo Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, alw...
Anton Chekhov Let us learn to appreciate there will be times w...
Antonio Porchia Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorr...
Aristotle If one way be better than another, that you may ...
Aristotle In all things of nature there is something of th...
Aristotle Nature does nothing uselessly....
Bertrand Russell I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to...
Bill Vaughan It's hard for the modern generation to understan...
Blaise Pascal There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, w...
Boris Pasternak Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked i...
Carl Reiner A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an un...
Carl Sagan In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you ...
Carl Sandburg And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of w...
Carl Sandburg Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread...
Charles Lindbergh How long can men thrive between walls of brick, ...
Charles Lindbergh In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and b...
Claude Monet I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers...
Colin McPhee We ran up the hills where, as you looked down to...
Dag Hammarskjold Never measure the height of a mountain until you...
Dale Carnegie One of the most tragic things I know about human...
David Gerrold Understanding the laws of nature does not mean t...
David Letterman Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watch...
Debbie Harry I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as l...
Delia Ephron In your standard-issue family - of which few rem...
Diane Ackerman Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all...
Diane Ackerman Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scen...
Don DeLillo There's always a period of curious fear between ...
Doug Larson Spring is when you feel like whistling even with...
e. e. cummings I thank you God for this most amazing day, for t...
e. e. cummings The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful....
Edward Abbey For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, ...
Elizabeth Gray Vining Fragments came floating into his mind like bits ...
Emily Dickinson How strange that nature does not knock, and yet ...
Emily Dickinson I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet kno...
Eric Berne The moment a little boy is concerned with which ...
Erma Bombeck The art of never making a mistake is crucial to ...
Erma Bombeck You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the A...
Ernest Jones The control man has secured over nature has far ...
Francis Bacon Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed....
Francis Bacon We cannot command Nature except by obeying her....
Frank Lloyd Wright I believe in God, only I spell it Nature....
Frederick Douglass It is not light that we need, but fire; it is no...
Galileo Galilei The sun, with all those planets revolving around...
George Bernard Shaw Except during the nine months before he draws hi...
George Gissing For the man sound in body and serene of mind the...
George Santayana To be interested in the changing seasons is a ha...
George Thoma Grass grows by inches but it's killed by feet....
George Washington Carver I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadc...
Georgia O'Keeffe I decided that if I could paint that flower in a...
Gerard De Nerval Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature....
Gil Stern Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom -...
Gwyn Thomas Once you have heard the lark, known the swish of...
H. G. Wells Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexor...
Hal Borland A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest ...
Hal Borland Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patie...
Hal Borland You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a b...
Hal Boyle What makes a river so restful to people is that ...
Hamlin Garland I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall th...
Hamlin Garland My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has gi...
Hamlin Garland Whenever the pressure of our complex city life t...
Hans Christian Anderson Just living is not enough... One must have sunsh...
Harry Millner There are many paths to the top of the mountain,...
Helen Keller To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy gr...
Henri Matisse There are always flowers for those who want to s...
Henry David Thoreau Every creature is better alive than dead, men an...
Henry David Thoreau Heaven is under our feet as well as over our hea...
Henry David Thoreau I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through ...
Henry David Thoreau I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for...
Henry David Thoreau If a man walks in the woods for love of them hal...
Henry David Thoreau Nature will bear the closest inspection. She inv...
Henry David Thoreau Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am...
Henry David Thoreau Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky ...
Henry David Thoreau The bluebird carries the sky on his back....
Henry David Thoreau You must not know too much or be too precise or ...
Henry Havelock Ellis The sun, the moon and the stars would have disap...
Henry Van Dyke Use what talent you possess - the woods would be...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The best thing one can do when it's raining is t...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is rep...
Henry Ward Beecher Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made an...
Henry Ward Beecher Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power ...
Ikkyu Sojun Break open a cherry tree and there are no flower...
Iris Murdoch People from a planet without flowers would think...
Isaac Bashevis Singer I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I d...
Izaak Walton Those little nimble musicians of the air, that w...
James Russell Lowell Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our e...
James Whitcomb Riley When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swi...
Jane Austen To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon ...
Jean Giraudoux The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is ...
Jean Paul Richter Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do a...
Jimmy Carter Like music and art, love of nature is a common l...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nature knows no pause in progress and developmen...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One must ask children and birds how cherries and...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The world is so empty if one thinks only of moun...
John Burroughs I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to ...
John Burroughs Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are...
John Burroughs To find the universal elements enough; to find t...
John F. Kennedy I look forward to an America which will not be a...
John Fowles In some mysterious way woods have never seemed t...
John Keats The poetry of the earth is never dead....
John Lubbock Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and river...
John Lubbock Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on th...
John Muir A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing...
John Muir Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places ...
John Muir God has cared for these trees, saved them from d...
John Muir How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mounta...
John Muir I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the g...
John Muir I only went out for a walk and finally concluded...
John Muir In every walk with nature one receives far more ...
John Muir Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or l...
John Muir The clearest way into the Universe is through a ...
John Muir The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise ...
John Muir There is that in the glance of a flower which ma...
John Muir We all travel the milky way together, trees and ...
John Muir When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he fi...
John Ruskin Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind ...
Kahlil Gibran Forget not that the earth delights to feel your ...
Katharine Graham A mistake is simply another way of doing things....
Kevin Starr A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungal...
Kin Hubbard Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the peop...
Lane Olinghouse Remember when atmospheric contaminants were roma...
Langston Hughes Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happ...
Langston Hughes Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon yo...
Leo Buscaglia I still get wildly enthusiastic about little thi...
Leonardo da Vinci Human subtelty will never devise an invention mo...
Logan Pearsall Smith What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Bea...
Loudon Wainwright The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of n...
Margaret Lindsey This very moment is a seed from which the flower...
Margaret Mead Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, co...
Marilyn Monroe Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame...
Marshall McLuhan There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We a...
Martin Luther For in the true nature of things, if we rightly ...
Mary Catherine Bateson Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bend...
Orison Swett Marden Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, st...
Orison Swett Marden The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. ...
Pam Brown For every person who has ever lived there has co...
R. Buckminster Fuller There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you...
Rabindranath Tagore The butterfly counts not months but moments, and...
Rabindranath Tagore Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to...
Rainer Maria Rilke Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it we...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not go where the path may lead, go instead wh...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Earth laughs in flowers....
Ralph Waldo Emerson Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of b...
Ralph Waldo Emerson How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature always wears the colors of the spirit....
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature and books belong to the eyes that see the...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Plants are the young of the world, vessels of he...
Ralph Waldo Emerson When nature has work to be done, she creates a g...
Richard Selzer Each is like a river that leaves behind its name...
Robert Byrne Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."...
Robert Green Ingersoll Hope is the only bee that makes honey without fl...
Robert Redford I think the environment should be put in the cat...
Robin Williams Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"...
Roger Miller Some people walk in the rain, others just get we...
Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people f...
Rupert Brooke Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed...
Russell Baker Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffe...
Ruth Stout There is a privacy about it which no other seaso...
Saint Basil Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his h...
Samuel Butler A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing...
Sandra Day O'Connor Having family responsibilities and concerns just...
Sara Teasdale Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and s...
Socrates He is richest who is content with the least, for...
Stephanie Mills Environmentalists have long been fond of saying ...
Steven Weinberg Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and ...
Tennessee Williams The violets in the mountains have broken the roc...
Thomas Browne All things are artificial, for nature is the art...
Thomas Merton By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that a...
Thornton Wilder The planting of trees is the least self-centered...
Toni Morrison All water has a perfect memory and is forever tr...
Vince Poscente In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inch...
Vincent Van Gogh When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the...
Virgil A. Kraft Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dir...
Walt Whitman A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more t...
Walt Whitman Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful...
Walt Whitman I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the jo...
Walter Scott Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you ...
Wendell Berry I am not bound for any public place, but for gro...
Wendell Berry To cherish what remains of the Earth and to fost...
Willa Cather I like trees because they seem more resigned to ...
William Cullen Bryant The groves were God's first temples....
William Cullen Bryant Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a ...
William Ellery Channing The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from fr...
William Hazlitt We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our...
William Manchester The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the...
William Shakespeare And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, fi...
William Shakespeare Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the gr...
William Shakespeare One touch of nature makes the whole world kin....
William Wordsworth Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature ...
Winston Churchill Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong...
Woody Allen I am two with nature....

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