1. I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees. - Pablo Neruda 

2. Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. - Doug Larson 

3. Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. - Joseph Conrad 

4. This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. - Joseph Conrad 

5. A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. - Hal Borland 

6. You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland 

7. Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. - Hal Borland 

8. What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? - Emil Cioran

9. Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen 

10. Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! - Wallace Stevens 

11. The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. - Wallace Stevens 

12. On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. - Jules Renard 

13. I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. - Annie Leibovitz 

14. Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. - Annie Leibovitz 

15. Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer. - Andy Goldsworthy 

16. Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. - Andy Goldsworthy 

17. It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. - Cyril Connolly 

18. Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. - Guru Nanak 

19. Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. - Gustav Mahler 

20. With the coming of spring, I am calm again. - Gustav Mahler 

21. Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. - William Cowper 

22. I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. - Willa Cather 

23. A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. - Anne Bronte 

24. A forest bird never wants a cage. - Henrik Ibsen 

25. I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. - E. B. White 

26. Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. - Emily Carr 

27. And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch's by the thorns. - Thomas Moore 

28. What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. - Werner Heisenberg 

29. Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison. - Bjork 

30. The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. - Matsuo Basho 

31. All nature wears one universal grin. - Henry Fielding 

32. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. - John Lubbock 

33. Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. - John Lubbock 

34. Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. - John Lubbock 

35. Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. - Antonio Porchia 

36. Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. - John Updike 

37. Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. - Theodore Roethke 

38. Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. - Theodore Roethke 

39. Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. - Lucy Maud Montgomery 

40. What's a butterfly garden without butterflies? - Roy Rogers 

41. Nature is a petrified magic city. - Novalis 

42. In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. - Aldo Leopold 

43. What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? - Pedro Calderon de la Barca 

44. Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca 

45. These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca 

46. The groves were God's first temples. - William Cullen Bryant 

47. The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at. - William Cullen Bryant 

48. There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. - William Cullen Bryant 

49. Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? - William Cullen Bryant 

50. The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. - William Cullen Bryant 

51. Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings. - William Cullen Bryant 

52. The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. - Vladimir Nabokov 

53. The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money. - Plautus 

54. Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. - Don Marquis 

55. People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. - Iris Murdoch 

56. The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. - Havelock Ellis 

57. During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. - John James Audubon 

58. He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 

59. Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. - Matthew Arnold 

60. Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. - Luigi Pirandello 

61. Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. - Alexander Smith 

62. The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. - Eric Berne 

63. Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. - Edward Young 

64. Nature was my kindergarten. - William Christopher Handy 

65. One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. - Loren Eiseley .

66. I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. - Hamlin Garland 

67. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. - Hamlin Garland 

68. My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. - Hamlin Garland 

69. What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. - Isaac Bashevis Singer 

70. Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. - Paul Dirac 

71. I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod. - Helen Hunt Jackson 

72. Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. - Radhanath Swami 

73. Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art. - Samuel Daniel 

74. The stars that have most glory have no rest. - Samuel Daniel 

75. If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. - Luther Burbank 

76. Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. - Hosea Ballou 

77. Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. - Sinclair Lewis 

78. Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. - Josiah Gilbert Holland

79. Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. - William Bartram 

80. My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, cheerfully meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. - William Bartram 

81. To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - Auguste Rodin 

82. Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. - Joyce Carol Oates 

83. The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux 

84. And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun. - Roy Bean 

85. And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. - Roy Bean 

86. Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. - Bhumibol Adulyadej 

87. There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. - Alfred Austin 

88. Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. - Diane Ackerman 

89. Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. - Thomas Campbell 

90. Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. - Roger Miller 

91. The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only. - Joseph Wood Krutch

92. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives. - Ann Voskamp 

93. The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. - Georges Simenon 

94. There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. - Don DeLillo 

95. Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. - Robert Delaunay 

96. Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. - Russell Baker 

97. Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. - Philip James Bailey 

98. I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. - Norman MacCaig

99. A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. - Carl Reiner 

100. Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. - Sara Teasdale