1. It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. - Frederick Douglass
2. Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. - Henry David Thoreau
3. To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. - Wendell Berry
4. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. - Albert Einstein
5. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare
6. And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare
7. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu
8. The good man is the friend of all living things. - Mahatma Gandhi
9. He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. - Socrates
10. In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
11. Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus
12. God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. - John Muir
13. Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
14. Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. - Langston Hughes
15. Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. - Langston Hughes
16. Everything in excess is opposed to nature. - Hippocrates
17. Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. - Anton Chekhov
18. The sea has neither meaning nor pity. - Anton Chekhov
19. O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? - Percy Bysshe Shelley
20. Gray skies are just clouds passing over. - Duke Ellington
21. The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. - Jacques Yves Cousteau
22. Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
23. We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. - Ruth St. Denis
24. The world is always in movement. - V. S. Naipaul
25. I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer
26. In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. - Mark Twain
27. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. - Winston Churchill
28. The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau
29. Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Albert Einstein
30. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. - Albert Einstein
31. We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. - Albert Einstein
32. The earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. - Helen Keller
36. Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. - William Shakespeare
37. Nature is not human hearted. - Lao Tzu
38. In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle 3
9. If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. - Aristotle
40. Nature does nothing in vain. - Aristotle
41. That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. - Marcus Aurelius
42. There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. - Thomas Jefferson
43. Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. - George Bernard Shaw
44. One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
45. Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
46. You can't just let nature run wild. - Walt Disney
47. Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. - C. S. Lewis
48. A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. - Walt Whitman
49. Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. - Walt Whitman
50. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. - Walt Whitman
51. Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. - Khalil Gibran
52. If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. - Napoleon Bonaparte
53. Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' - Robin Williams
54. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. - John Muir
55. The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir
56. The mountains are calling and I must go. - John Muir
57. Water is the driving force of all nature. - Leonardo da Vinci
58. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost
59. How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! - Emily Dickinson
60. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. - Emily Dickinson
61. When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. - Vincent Van Gogh
62. For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. - Vincent Van Gogh
63. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan
64. The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. - Diogenes
65. What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. - Victor Hugo
66. For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. - Martin Luther
67. Nature abhors annihilation. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
68. Nature is wont to hide herself. - Heraclitus
69. Land really is the best art. - Andy Warhol
70. My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. - Aldous Huxley
71. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. - George Eliot
72. We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon
73. The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. - Francis Bacon
74. Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. - Francis Bacon
75. The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
76. The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
77. I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. - Bertrand Russell
78. Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. - Walter Scott
79. Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. - Benjamin Disraeli
80. Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. - Rabindranath Tagore
81. The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. - Rabindranath Tagore
82. My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. - Michelangelo
83. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. - Leo Buscaglia
84. Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. - Blaise Pascal
85. The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. - Blaise Pascal
86. The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. - D. H. Lawrence
87. One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie
88. He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. - Samuel Johnson
89. Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. - Albert Schweitzer
90. The ocean is a mighty harmonist. - William Wordsworth
91. Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. - William Wordsworth
92. I love not man the less, but Nature more. - Lord Byron
93. There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. - Lord Byron
94. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright
95. Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. - Rainer Maria Rilke
96. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. - Alexander Pope
97. Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. - Alexander Pope
98. I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. - George Washington Carver
99. Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. - George Washington Carver
100. The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. - e. e. cummings
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